De Bow's Review, Band 11James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Robert Gibbes Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J.D.B. De Bow, 1851 |
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... estimate is too high , at least it has been since my advent into this section . The average yield of corn by some is put at 40 , 45 , and even 50 and 60 bushels per acre ; but all of these figures are too high ; I think 33§ , or about ...
... estimate is too high , at least it has been since my advent into this section . The average yield of corn by some is put at 40 , 45 , and even 50 and 60 bushels per acre ; but all of these figures are too high ; I think 33§ , or about ...
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... estimated at $ 400 round , make $ 2,773,600 . Value of labor is hard to estimate , i . e . , free labor , as so little of it is done . White men hate to work where negroes are plenty . Day laborers may be had for from $ 15 to $ 30 per ...
... estimated at $ 400 round , make $ 2,773,600 . Value of labor is hard to estimate , i . e . , free labor , as so little of it is done . White men hate to work where negroes are plenty . Day laborers may be had for from $ 15 to $ 30 per ...
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... estimated at 1 in 60 of the weight ; with our hard pine 1 in 80 may safely be assumed ; but as such calculations should be based on the resistance of the roads which have been considerably worn , and therefore not perfectly smooth , I ...
... estimated at 1 in 60 of the weight ; with our hard pine 1 in 80 may safely be assumed ; but as such calculations should be based on the resistance of the roads which have been considerably worn , and therefore not perfectly smooth , I ...
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... Estimated at .. .231,194,000 lbs . Brown sugar made by the old process ... Refined , clarified , etc. , including cistern . 184,372 hhds . 26,831 44 211,203 66 GENERAL REMARKS . It must be understood , in this recapitulation , that the ...
... Estimated at .. .231,194,000 lbs . Brown sugar made by the old process ... Refined , clarified , etc. , including cistern . 184,372 hhds . 26,831 44 211,203 66 GENERAL REMARKS . It must be understood , in this recapitulation , that the ...
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... estimate of the loss by the frost . In 1849 - '50 the cane stood in the fields to the very last hour , improving every day . The present crop was partly arrested on the 26th of October , and nearly all entirely so on the 16th of ...
... estimate of the loss by the frost . In 1849 - '50 the cane stood in the fields to the very last hour , improving every day . The present crop was partly arrested on the 26th of October , and nearly all entirely so on the 16th of ...
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Seite 29 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Seite 29 - If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Seite 355 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Seite 355 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Seite 118 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: And all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Seite 355 - ... the removal of the causes of this spirit of American Liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of Criminal Process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and last - to comply with the American Spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it, as a necessary Evil.
Seite 355 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.
Seite 156 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Seite 149 - ... they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.
Seite 319 - This act may be amended or repealed, at the pleasure of the legislature, and every corporation created, under this act shall be bound by such amendment...