The History of North America, Volume 17Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe subscribers only, 1905 |
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The History of North America, Volume 17 Guy Carleton Lee,Francis Newton Thorpe Visualização integral - 1905 |
The History of North America, Volume 17 Guy Carleton Lee,Francis Newton Thorpe Visualização integral - 1905 |
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acres agricultural Alabama Albemarle Sound amount annual Arkansas average bales branch bushels capital cent centres chiefly cities coal College commonwealth cotton manufacture cotton mills cotton seed oil course crop cultivation districts enormous entire equal established estimated exported extraordinary factories farms feet fertilizers field fish fisheries Florida forests freight Georgia greater grown growth hundred important increase industry influence institutions iron Kentucky labor lands large number largest long tons Louisiana Maryland miles mines Mississippi national banks nearly negro North Carolina Northern obtained Orleans output oyster phosphate pig iron pine plant plantation planters population possessed pounds principal production proportion public schools quantity race railway region rice River rural short tons slavery soil South Southern mills square miles squeteague staple supply tenant Tennessee Texas thousand tion tobacco total resources towns trees Union United variety vast volume wages wealth West Virginia
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Página 290 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Página 65 - In 1900, the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia...
Página 393 - ... for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education among the young of the more destitute portions of the Southern and Southwestern States of our Union; my purpose being that the benefits intended shall be distributed among the entire population, without other distinction than their needs and the opportunities of usefulness to them.
Página 406 - ... be accurately or even approximately measured, and an action for damages for a breach of said contract would not afford an adequate and complete remedy, because of the following facts: First That this defendant uses a large amount of current.
Página 188 - Carolina, was established in 1893, and five years later its textile department was thrown open to students. The textile course in this institution covers a period of four years; the first two years, however, are devoted to general instruction, regardless of special lines and only indirectly bearing on manufactures ; thus it embraces courses in mathematics, chemistry, natural philosophy, geometry and drawing, wood, forge, and foundry work. In the third and fourth years, practical instruction is given...
Página 458 - ... that event, have completely altered the South's economic point of view. That part of the Union is still the principal agricultural division of the United States, — under free institutions, its volume of agricultural production very much exceeds the volume under slave institutions, — nevertheless, it has now laid a broad foundation for manufactures that already compare most favorably, both in variety and extent, with the manufactures of the countries leading in -this department of activity....
Página 465 - North, when for lack of skill, lack of sobriety, and lack of persistency, the negro will find it more difficult to stand up as a rival of the white workingman. Already, it is the ultimate fate of the negro that is in the balance, not the ultimate fate of the Southern States in consequence of the presence of the negro. The darkest day for the Southern whites has passed...
Página 171 - ... invariably observed that whenever a crop threatens to be short, the mill owners in those centres are ready to buy at a rate considerably higher than the quotations on the Exchanges of Liverpool, New York, and New Orleans, by which the price of cotton is set from one end of the world to the other. The 175 tendency to disregard these quotations to a very marked degree is almost certain to grow as the production of cotton goods in the Southern States increases in value; and the whole effect of this...
Página 395 - At first, the distribution of the income of the fund was confined to a certain number of the large towns of the South, because, as the trustees declared, " in such towns there was generally more enterprise or more ambition to carry the schools to a high degree of excellence." As the principal centres of population became able to sustain by local taxation their own system of public education, the income of the fund was directed to the rural districts, in which it was sought to foster a like spirit...
Página 458 - This is the only phase of the recent growth of this part of the Union which in the end may lead to injurious consequences. Enormous as are the elements of natural wealth possessed by the South, her wisest economical policy from the point of view of her ultimate needs would seem to be to retain for her own future use a larger proportion of certain of these raw materials than she is doing, or to make greater immediate use of them by the employment of .more considerable amounts of foreign capital in...