A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... 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 - 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 - 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 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 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 ...