 What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make...  Charles Sumner - Page 180by Moorfield Storey - 1900 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...Hammond, addressed to the Senate of the United States, March 4th, 1858, are very well known : — " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king; until lately the Bank of England was king; but she tned to put her screws, as usual,... | |
 | Universalism - 1862 - 462 pages
...Senator Hammond of South Carolina — considered as boasting of the power which the South can keep : " ' No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king ; until lately the Bank of England was king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1858 - 636 pages
...visions of southern power, crowns cotton, " king," and tells us that if they should stop supplying cotton for three years, " England would topple headlong, and carry the whole civilized world with her savetheSouth!" What presumption! TheSoulh — which owns lands and slaves, ihe price fluctuating with... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but thia is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...visions of Southern power, crowns cotton " king," and tells us that if they should stop supplying cotton for three years, " England would topple headlong, and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South." What presumption ! The South, — which owns lands and slaves, the price fluctuating... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 398 pages
...States, and to the supposed superiority of a community of privileged classes over an actual democracy. " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king ; until lately the Bank of England was king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual,... | |
 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 388 pages
...States, and to the supposed superiority of a community of privileged classes over an actual democracy. " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king ; until lately the Bank of England was king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...of the United States, in March, 1858, Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, said, exultingly : — " You dare not make war upon Cotton. N"o power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is KING. Until lately the Bank of England was king; but she tried to put her screws, as usual,... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1866 - 780 pages
...furnished for three years ? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain — England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it.... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...furnished for three years ? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain — England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not "make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it.... | |
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