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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. "
The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion ... - Page 90
by Richard Miller Devens - 1866 - 705 pages
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Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped ...

Nayan Chanda - History - 2008 - 416 pages
...staunch supporter, Senator James H. Hammond, famously declared before the US Senate on 4 March 1858: "You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king." The senator was wrong on one count: soon thereafter the American...
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1859-1861 ...

Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1892 - 486 pages
...furnished for three years? England would topple headlong, and carry the whole civilized world with her. 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, the fall before...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1862 - 820 pages
...Hammond, addressed to the Senate of the United States, March •ith, 1858, are very well known : — 1 " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is Icing ; until lately the Bank of England icas king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual, the...
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Charles Sumner

Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 502 pages
...furnished for three years? England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her. No, you dare not make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it." His more enthusiastic associate, Wigfall of Texas, insisted that " Victoria's crown would not stand...
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