| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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