The North and the South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave StatesJ.P. Jewett, 1856 - 134 páginas |
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Acres of Improved acres of land aggregate agricultural products Alabama Annual Product Arkansas Average Bow's bushels California Census Compendium Census Returns cent Connecticut copies Number Number Cotton Crops Delaware dollars electoral votes ending June fifteen slave Florida Free and Slave free colored free population Georgia Hampshire Hands employed hundred Illinois Indiana Iowa Jersey June 30 Kentucky Louisiana Manufac manufactures Maryland Massachusetts Michigan million Mississippi Missouri nearly non-slaveholding North Northern Number of acres Number of Farms number of slaves Ohio Pennsylvania Personal Estate postages pounds printed of copies Public Schools ratio Real and Personal Remaining Counties Rhode Island show the number slaveholding slavery South Carolina Southern square miles Tennessee Territory Texas thousand tion tonnage built tons Total tures Unimproved Land valuation VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL Value of Farms value of lands Value of Real value of slaves Value per Acre Vermont Virginia wheat white population whole area whole number Wisconsin York
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Página 81 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 45 - I can show you, with sorrow, in the older portions of Alabama, and in my native county of Madison, the sad memorials of the artless and exhausting culture of cotton. Our small planters, after taking the cream off their lands, unable to restore them by rest, manures, or otherwise, are going further west and south, in search of other virgin lands, which they may and will despoil and impoverish in like manner.
Página 45 - ... 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 in Virginia and the Carolinas...
Página 116 - Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years. " No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Territory...
Página 112 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Página 22 - The legal maxim of partus sequitur ventrem is coeval with the existence of the right of property itself, and is founded in wisdom and justice. It is on the justice and inviolability of this maxim that the master foregoes the service of the female slave, has her nursed and attended during the period of her gestation, and raises the helpless infant offspring. The value of the property justifies the expense, and I do not hesitate to say that in its increase consists much of our wealth.
Página 85 - He failed to realize that without public taxation public schools can never succeed, but he did realize that — the great obstacle in the organization of common schools is not so much a deficiency in the means to sustain them, but it is attributable to the indifference that pervades the public mind on the subject of education.
Página 116 - If any person print, write, introduce into, publish or circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published, or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, printing, publishing, or circulating within this Territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, magazine, handbill or circular, containing any statements, arguments, opinions, sentiment, doctrine, advice, or innuendo, calculated to produce a disorderly, dangerous, or rebellious disaffection among the slaves in this Territory,...
Página 112 - ... confined in any public prison; and the legislature may make provision for taking the votes of electors who may be absent from their townships or wards, in the volunteer military service of the United States, or the militia service of this State; but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to allow any soldier, seaman or marine in the regular army or navy of the United States the right to vote.
Página 42 - ... and the tops and blades of Indian corn; as very few persons have attended to sowing grasses, and connecting cattle with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the laborers and horses. Our lands, as I mentioned in my first letter to you, were originally very good; but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise.