A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America: Forming a Complete Emigrant's Directory Through Every Part of the Republic: Particularising the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Illinois; and the Territories of Alabama and Missouri ... East and West Florida, Michigan, and North-western ... Likewise, an Account of the British Possessions in Upper and Lower Canada ...Edwards & Knibb, 1820 - 751 páginas |
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... cultivation , are almost uninhabitable , from the extreme rigour of the season . This is peculiarly the case with the inhospitable region of Labrador , which lies nearly opposite to Great Britain . Various causes have been suggested in ...
... cultivation , are almost uninhabitable , from the extreme rigour of the season . This is peculiarly the case with the inhospitable region of Labrador , which lies nearly opposite to Great Britain . Various causes have been suggested in ...
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... cultivation , the seasons become more moderate . Ever since the first settlement of North America , the severity of ... cultivated parts of the country . The cold of the winters is also perceptibly decreasing : the rivers are not frozen ...
... cultivation , the seasons become more moderate . Ever since the first settlement of North America , the severity of ... cultivated parts of the country . The cold of the winters is also perceptibly decreasing : the rivers are not frozen ...
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... cultivated by the negroes in the southern states , and affords a fine food for poultry . The spiked Indian corn is of a similar kind . Rice was first introduced in the Carolinas in 1668 , but it was little cul- tivated until eight years ...
... cultivated by the negroes in the southern states , and affords a fine food for poultry . The spiked Indian corn is of a similar kind . Rice was first introduced in the Carolinas in 1668 , but it was little cul- tivated until eight years ...
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... cultivate . In the inter- vals of toil , their amusements consist chiefly of hunting and shooting , in the woods , or in the mountains ; whence they acquire prodigious muscular activity and strength . There are no game laws , to ...
... cultivate . In the inter- vals of toil , their amusements consist chiefly of hunting and shooting , in the woods , or in the mountains ; whence they acquire prodigious muscular activity and strength . There are no game laws , to ...
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... weight of sugar are supposed to have been made in 1817. In the state of Georgia , also , the sugar- cape is cultivated with success . The culture of the cane is not more laborious than that of cotton , and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 81.
... weight of sugar are supposed to have been made in 1817. In the state of Georgia , also , the sugar- cape is cultivated with success . The culture of the cane is not more laborious than that of cotton , and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 81.
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Página 130 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Página 65 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 66 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 65 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Página 97 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Página 66 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 44 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 428 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Página 97 - ... which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Página 66 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him.