Pamphlets, Edição 54

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Loyal Publication Society, 1864
 

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Página 27 - Sound on the north, the Mediterranean sea of our extreme northwestern possessions. It includes fifteen sovereignties known as the "Land States," and an extent of territory sufficient for thirty-two additional, each equal to the great central land State of Ohio. It embraces soils capable of abundant yield of the rich productions of the tropics, of sugar, cotton, rice, tobacco, corn, and the grape, the vintage, now a staple, particularly so of California ; of the great cereals, wheat and corn, in the...
Página 27 - ... toil of the agriculturist, dealing with the earth under the guidance of the science of the present age. Not only is the yield of food for man in this region abundant, but it holds in its bosom the precious metals of gold, silver, with cinnabar, the useful metals of iron, lead, copper, interspersed with immense belts or strata of that propulsive element coal, the source of riches and power, and now the indispensable agent not only for domestic purposes of life, but in the machine shop, the steam...
Página 8 - Decennial Percentage Increase of Population ; Decennial Percentage Increase of National Wealth ; and Average Property to each Person.
Página 31 - He proposes to subject these minerals to a Government tax of eight per cent, and counts upon a revenue from this source of twenty-five millions per annum, almost immediately, and upon a proportionate increase in the future. He adds that, " with an amount of labor relatively equal to that expended in California, applied to the gold fields already known to exist outside of that State, the production of this year, including that of California, would exceed four hundred millions." " In a word," says...
Página 35 - ... in short, the distinctive apparel formerly dealt out to them, as a uniform allowance, — are very generally rejected. But there is no article of household-furniture or wearing apparel, used by persons of moderate means among us, which they will not purchase, when they are allowed the opportunity of labor and earning wages. What a market the South would open under the new system! It would set all the mills and workshops astir. Four millions of people would become purchasers of all the various...
Página 20 - ... amount deposited by £3,114,136 ; yet, in spite of this, by the cumulative power of compound interest, the aggregate deposits increased, in the same period, £10,718,751. In nine out of the seventeen years, the withdrawals exceeded the deposits, and in the years 1847 and 1848, which were marked by great commercial distress in England, the excess of withdrawals over deposits was more than five millions of pounds sterling. These figures show how much more frequently in Great Britain than in our...
Página 13 - This rate of progress, especially since 1820, is owing, in part, to immigration from foreign countries. " There arrived in ten years — From 1820 to 1830 244,490 From 1830 to 1840 552,000 From 1840 to 1850 1,558,300 From 1850 to 1860 2,707,624 Total 5,062,414 "Being a yearly average of 126,560 for the last forty years, and 270,762 for the last ten years.
Página 8 - ... and in the valuation of 1860 $1,936,000,000, as the assessed value of slaves, insisting that black men are persons and not property, and should be regarded, like other men, only as producers and consumers. If this view of the subject should be admitted, the valuation of 1850 would be reduced to $6,174,780,000, and that of 1860 to $14,223,618,068, leaving the increase in the decade $8,048,825,840.
Página 22 - Again, in 1859 the amount of wheat raised in the State of Indiana was 15,219,000 bushels; while in 1863, notwithstanding the State, out of its population, in 1860, of 1,350,000, had furnished to the army more than 124,000 fighting men; the annual product of wheat exceeded 20,000,000 of bushels.

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