 | Henry Chase - United States - 1856 - 148 pages
...once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a county in its infancy, where fifiy years ago scarce a forest tree had been felled by...the freshness of its agricultural glory is gone; the vigor of its youth is extinct, and the spirit of desolation seems brooding over it." Enough of these... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1856 - 760 pages
...whole domain' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in tts infancy, where, fifty years ago, scarce a forest tree...been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exltibiting the painful signs of senility snd decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carohnas ; the freshness... | |
 | George William Curtis - Citizenship - 1856 - 46 pages
...own home : " a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a foresttree had been felled by the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs...and decay apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." These are specimens of the statistics which are to be found in books that any man can read. All the... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where...and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." Some one has said that " an honest confession is good for the soul," and if the adage be true, as we... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 434 pages
...find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where...and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." Some one has said that " an honest confession is good for the soul," and if the adage be true, as we... | |
 | George Melville Weston - Slavery - 1857 - 336 pages
...' the whole domain,' that once furnished happy homes ' for a dozen white families. Indeed, a county in its ' infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest...pioneer, is already ' exhibiting the painful signs of sterility and decay, ' apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." Facts like these, which are multiplied... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where...been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhiv^' biting the painful signs of senility and decay, apparent ia v Virginia and the Carolinas."... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had ? een fello 1 by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 440 pages
...fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had t ecu fellol by the axe of the pioneer, is already cxhjbiting the painful signs of senility and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." Some one has said that " an honest confession is good for the soul," and if the adage be true, as we... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Currency question - 1858 - 182 pages
...will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where,...and decay apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." — CC Clay. Here is an increase, in the quantity requiring to be transported, amounting to more than... | |
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... that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay apparent... 
