A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier, with a Statistical AppendixBrookhaven Press, 1859 - Počet stran: 516 |
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Strana x
... cotton is yet too low to permit him to invest money where it does not promise to be immediately and directly pro- ductive . The Iowan may still have one or two thousand dollars , to be lent to merchants , mechanics , or manufacturers ...
... cotton is yet too low to permit him to invest money where it does not promise to be immediately and directly pro- ductive . The Iowan may still have one or two thousand dollars , to be lent to merchants , mechanics , or manufacturers ...
Strana xi
... cotton - for cotton , almost alone , of all he can produce under these disadvantages , bears the cost of transportation to cash customers . He will rarely , as I have supposed , invest in a carpenter ; he will rarely undertake the ...
... cotton - for cotton , almost alone , of all he can produce under these disadvantages , bears the cost of transportation to cash customers . He will rarely , as I have supposed , invest in a carpenter ; he will rarely undertake the ...
Strana xiii
... cotton - a quality so valua- ble that Texans sell scarcely anything out of the State but cotton , which they even find it profitable to exchange for corn raised in Ohio , and taxed with the expense of a great transportation , and ...
... cotton - a quality so valua- ble that Texans sell scarcely anything out of the State but cotton , which they even find it profitable to exchange for corn raised in Ohio , and taxed with the expense of a great transportation , and ...
Strana xv
... cotton and wool stuffs more by the yard . Will you say that no superficial observations of a passing stranger can shake your confidence in the great higher law of demand and supply ? That slavery cannot be forced by any legis- lation to ...
... cotton and wool stuffs more by the yard . Will you say that no superficial observations of a passing stranger can shake your confidence in the great higher law of demand and supply ? That slavery cannot be forced by any legis- lation to ...
Strana xviii
... cotton this country sends them . I think twice that amount would be too little to recompense the country for the loss of capital at present involved in its production . I believe that , with free labor in Texas , unem- barrassed by the ...
... cotton this country sends them . I think twice that amount would be too little to recompense the country for the loss of capital at present involved in its production . I believe that , with free labor in Texas , unem- barrassed by the ...
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