Resources and Prospects of America: Ascertained During a Visit to the States in the Autumn of 1865A. Strahan & Company, 1866 - 404 Seiten |
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... regard to the effects of war , that the heaviest and most costly civil conflict can be borne not only with- out exhaustion , but even with an increase of national prosperity . Were I asked to account for this , I could only do so by ...
... regard to the effects of war , that the heaviest and most costly civil conflict can be borne not only with- out exhaustion , but even with an increase of national prosperity . Were I asked to account for this , I could only do so by ...
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... regard these facts for our own benefit . We have made immense progress here in England during the last thirty years : not , perhaps , in the way in which progress has been made in America , but even in modes more conducive to wealth ...
... regard these facts for our own benefit . We have made immense progress here in England during the last thirty years : not , perhaps , in the way in which progress has been made in America , but even in modes more conducive to wealth ...
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... regard their country as essentially agricultural , and by no means essentially commercial or manufacturing . But I think their own records establish my position . Of about 8,217,000 heads of families and other individuals , whose ...
... regard their country as essentially agricultural , and by no means essentially commercial or manufacturing . But I think their own records establish my position . Of about 8,217,000 heads of families and other individuals , whose ...
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... regard to those questions of revenue , taxation , & c . with which I shall hereafter have to deal . Amongst some parties in the country there is a cry in favour of high rates of Import Duties for the protection of native manufac- tures ...
... regard to those questions of revenue , taxation , & c . with which I shall hereafter have to deal . Amongst some parties in the country there is a cry in favour of high rates of Import Duties for the protection of native manufac- tures ...
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... regard the numbers stated to be engaged in what may be properly regarded as manufacturing industry , we shall find that they fall very far short of any such calculation . The following are the principal figures , as far as I can gather ...
... regard the numbers stated to be engaged in what may be properly regarded as manufacturing industry , we shall find that they fall very far short of any such calculation . The following are the principal figures , as far as I can gather ...
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Seite 321 - But while I have no doubt that now, after the close of the war, it is not competent for the General Government to extend the elective franchise in the several States, it is equally clear that good faith requires the security of the freedmen in their liberty and their property, their right to labor, and their right to claim the just return of their labor.
Seite 7 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,
Seite 321 - The country is in need of labor, and the freedmen are in need of employment, culture and protection. While their right of voluntary migration and expatriation is not to be questioned, I would not advise their forced removal and colonization. Let us rather encourage them to honorable and useful industry, where it may be beneficial to themselves and to the country ; and, instead of hasty anticipations of the certainty of failure, let there be nothing wanting to the fair trial of the experiment.
Seite 94 - Mechanical contrivances of every sort are produced to supply the want of human hands. Thus we find America producing a machine even to peel apples; another to beat eggs; a third to clean knives; a fourth to wring clothes...
Seite 322 - ... so ought the other. The public interest will be best promoted if the several States will provide adequate protection and remedies for the freedmen. Until this is in some way accomplished there is no chance for the advantageous use of their labor, and the blame of ill success will not rest on them. I know that sincere philanthropy is earnest for the immediate realization of its remotest aims; but time is always an element in reform.
Seite 322 - The freedman cannot fairly be accused of unwillingness to work, so long as a doubt remains about his freedom of choice in his pursuits, and the certainty of his recovering his stipulated wages. In this the interests of the employer and the employed coincide. The employer desires in his workmen spirit and alacrity, and these can be permanently secured in no other way. And if the one ought to be able to enforce the contract, so ought the other. The public interest will be best promoted if tihe several...
Seite 319 - State which had attempted to secede: Whether the. territory within the limits of those States should be held as conquered territory, under military authority emanating from the President as the head of the army, was the first question that presented itself for decision. Now, military governments, established for an indefinite period, would have offered no security for the early suppression of discontent ; would have divided the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished; and would, have envenomed...
Seite 2 - Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.
Seite 318 - ... careful that the failure shall not be attributable to any denial of justice. In all that relates to the destiny of the freedmen we need not be too anxious to read the future; many incidents which, from a speculative point of view, might raise alarm will quietly settle themselves. Now that slavery is at an end, or near its end, the greatness of its evil in the point of view of public economy becomes more and more apparent.
Seite 272 - States is such that if they were allowed to take advantage of it for purposes of local revenue the commerce between States might be injuriously burdened, or even virtually prohibited. It is best, while the country is still young and while the tendency to dangerous monopolies of this kind is still feeble, to use the power of Congress so as to prevent any selfish impediment to the free circulation of men and merchandise. A tax on travel and merchandise in their transit constitutes one of the worst...