 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - United States - 1946 - 472 pages
...would topple 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 is King!" The North surely had the advantage in money, materials, and men. But too often the boys in blue were... | |
 | Iowa - 1918 - 646 pages
...headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you do not dare to make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King". To Francis Lieber, Senator Hammond wrote on April 19, 1860: "I firmly believe that the slave-holding... | |
 | Robert William Fogel - Antislavery movements - 1994 - 550 pages
...in the US Senate in 1858, issued a warning to his northern colleagues: No, you dare not make war on 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, the fall before... | |
 | Robert N. Rosen - Charleston (S.C.) - 1994 - 232 pages
...from South Carolina, James Henry Hammond, who had spoken those famous words "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King." Russell found this belief to be alive and well in 1 861 . He also found it "remarkable" and the King... | |
 | Robert William Fogel, Stanley L Engerman - Business & Economics - 1995 - 338 pages
...hypocrisy in the position of many critics of the South when he proclaimed : No, you dare not make war on 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, the fall before... | |
 | Witold Rybczynski - Architecture - 1999 - 488 pages
...South. Just the threat of British intervention, they hoped, would be enough to constrain the North. "No! you dare not make war upon cotton; no power on earth dares to make war on it," boasted Governor James H. Hammond of South Carolina, ". . . cotton is king." Thus Hammond unwittingly... | |
 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...headlong and earrv 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 is Kingl" Now, on the eve of the war, the Charleston Mercury boasted, "The cards are in our hands, and... | |
 | Howard Jones - History - 2002 - 334 pages
...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 is king!" In June 1861 the Charleston Mercury exalted cotton as the key to Confederate victory: "The cards are... | |
 | Rodman L. Underwood - History - 2003 - 214 pages
...Senator James H. Hammond summed it up best on the floor of the US Senate on March 4, 1858, when he said, "You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king."219 Texas Senator Louis T. Wigfall addressed the same body on December... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...of both England and the North would be destroyed. "You dare not make war on cotton," said Hammond. "No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king."1 Elliott designed his volume to reply to the antislavery arguments of the abolitionists, including... | |
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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 is King. 
