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Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter intro
the other; one of the hundred ways, in a word, in which the rapacious North is fattening upon the oppressed and pillaged South. You will naturally wish to know the amount of this tyrannical and oppressive bounty. It is stated by a senator from Alabama (Mr. Clay) who has warred against it with perseverance and zeal, and succeeded in the last Congress in carrying a bill through the Senate for its repeal, to have amounted, on the average, to an annual sum of 200,005 dollars! Such is the portentoTerritories claimed by Secession. Then look at the case for a moment, in reference to the cost of the acquisitions of territory made on this side of the continent within the present century,--Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and the entire coast of Alabama and Mississippi; vast regions acquired from France, Spain, and Mexico, within sixty years. Louisiana cost 15,000,000 dollars, when our population was 5,000,000, representing, of course, a burden of 90,000,000 of dollars at the present day. Flori
Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter intro
fficers; but her climate and its diseases, the bars at the mouth of nearly all her harbors, the Teredo, the want of a merchant marine and of fisheries, and the character of her laboring population, will forever prevent her becoming a great naval power. Without the protection of the Navy of the United States, of which the strength centres at the North, she would hold the ingress and egress of every port on her coast at the mercy, I will not say of the great maritime States of Europe, but of Holland, and Denmark, and Austria, and Spain--of any second or third-rate power, which can keep a few steam frigates at sea. It must be confessed, however, that there is a sad congruity between the conduct of our seceding fellow-citizens and the motives which they assign for it. They attempt a suicidal separation of themselves from a great naval power, of which they are now an integral part, and they put forward, as the reason for this self-destructive course, the legislative measures which have
Brandywine (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter intro
to their climate. For seven years at least, and probably more, this duty was in every sense of the word a protecting duty. There was not a pound of cotton spun, no not for candle-wicks to light the humble industry of the cottages of the North, which did not pay this tribute to the Southern planter. The growth of the native article, as we have seen, had not in 1794 reached a point to be known to Chief Justice Jay as one of actual or probable export. As late as 1796, the manufacturers of Brandywine in Delaware petitioned Congress for the repeal of this duty on imported cotton, and the petition was rejected on the Report of a Committee, consisting of a majority from the Southern States, on the ground, that to repeal the duty on raw cotton imported would be to damp the growth of cotton in our own country. Radicle and plumule, root and stalk, blossom and boll, the culture of the cotton plant in the United States was in its infancy the foster-child of the Protective System. When ther
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter intro
egotiators, at the first interview, that their master was prepared to treat with them not merely for the Isle of New Orleans, but for the whole vast province which bore the name of Louisiana; whose boundaries, then unsettled, have since been carried on the North to the British line, on the West to the Pacific Ocean; a territory half as big as Europe, transferred by a stroke of the pen. Fifty-eight years have elapsed since the acquisition was made. The States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas, the territories of Nebraska, Dacotah, Jefferson, and part of Colorado, have been established within its limits, on this side of the Rocky Mountains; the State of Oregon and the territory of Washington on their western slope; while a tide of population is steadily pouring into the region, destined in addition to the natural increase, before the close of the century, to double the number of the States and Territories. For the entire region west of the Alleghanies and ea
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter intro
souri and the Mississippi Rivers, with their hundred tributaries, give to the great central basin of our continent its character and destiny. The outlet of this mighty system lies between the States of Tennessee and Missouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State of Louisiana. The ancient province so-called, the proudest monument of the mighty monarch whose name it bears, passed from the jurisdiction of France to that of Spain in 1763. Spain coveted it, not that she might fill itince been carried on the North to the British line, on the West to the Pacific Ocean; a territory half as big as Europe, transferred by a stroke of the pen. Fifty-eight years have elapsed since the acquisition was made. The States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas, the territories of Nebraska, Dacotah, Jefferson, and part of Colorado, have been established within its limits, on this side of the Rocky Mountains; the State of Oregon and the territory of Washington on t
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter intro
ence on their colonial charters. I wish, said he, that the charters may not ensnare us at last, by drawing different Colonies to act differently in this great cause. Whenever that is the case all is over with the whole. There ought to be no New England man, no New Yorker, known on the Continent, but all of us Americans. Ibid., p. 335. While the patriots in America counselled, and wrote, and spoke as a people, they were recognized as such in England. Believe me, cried Colonel Barre inrely not believe it. We listened, said Mr. Vice-President Stephens, in his reply, to my honorable friend last night, (Mr. Toornbs,) as he recounted the evils of this Government. The first was the fishing bounties paid mostly to the sailors of New England. The bounty paid by the Federal Government to encourage the deep-sea fisheries of the United States! You are aware that this laborious branch of industry has, by all maritime States, been ever regarded with special favor as the nursery of
America (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter intro
led the Constitution, of the United States of America. It is not my purpose on this occasion to ma65 roused the spirit of resistance throughout America, the Unity of her People assumed a still moream on the 27th Jan. 1775, for our claims over America? What is our right to persist in such cruel , made his great speech for conciliation with America. I do not know, he exclaimed, the method of name of all your Majesty's faithful People in America. The Declaration of Independence RecognizeBurke's account of the English settlements in America, begins with Jamaica, and proceeds through ths if it was intended to impress this maxim on America, that our Freedom and Independence arose from scale, is well known to be of recent date in America. The household manufacture of cotton was coe in the South. The Northern manufacturers of America were slightly protected in 1789 because they success of the great enterprise. The fate of America trembled for a moment in a doubtful balance, [1 more...]
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter intro
he case for a moment, in reference to the cost of the acquisitions of territory made on this side of the continent within the present century,--Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and the entire coast of Alabama and Mississippi; vast regions acquired from France, Spain, and Mexico, within sixty years. Louisiana cost 15,000,000 dollars, whenthe Florida war of 1840, in which some 80,000,000 of dollars were thrown away, for the purpose of driving out a handful of starving Seminoles from the Everglades. Texas cost $200,000,000 expended in the Mexican war, in addition to the lives of thousands of brave men; besides $10,000,000 paid to her in 1850, for ceding a tract of lexpense of the military establishment of the United States has been incurred in defending the South-Western frontier. The troops, meanly surprised and betrayed in Texas, were sent there to protect her defenseless border settlements from the tomahawk and scalping-knife. If to all this expenditure we add that of the forts, the navy
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter intro
n the family of nations. It was classed with England, France, and Russia, as one of the four leadie Constitution. Before their independence of England was asserted, they constituted a provincial pther in Russia, another in France, another in England, another in Switzerland, another in San Marinland, by her own act, to sever her union with England? Again, in 1706, Scotland and England formles, remained in force. Rapin's History of England, vol. IV., p. 741-6. A powerful minority in , from asserting their independence? Did not England strain her resources to the utmost tension, tg, if they please, their former allegiance to England, France, and Spain. It rests with them, withd for the Gulf States in this century. Would England, would France, would any government on the fa colonial empire which should balance that of England. In pursuit of this policy, he fixed his eye would in a short time belong to France or to England, and with equal wisdom and courage he determi[11 more...]
North America (search for this): chapter intro
nt of each other for local concerns, united under one Government for the management of common interests and the prevention of internal feuds. There was no limit to the possible extension of such a system. It had already comprehended half of North America, and it might, in the course of time, have folded the continent in its peaceful, beneficent embrace. We fondly dreamed that, in the lapse of ages, it would have been extended till half the Western hemisphere had realized the vision of univer cherished as a leading object of his policy, to acquire for France a colonial empire which should balance that of England. In pursuit of this policy, he fixed his eye on the ancient regal colony which Louis XIV. had founded in the heart of North America, and he tempted Spain by the paltry bribe of creating a kingdom of Etruria for a Bourbon prince, to give back to France the then boundless waste of the territory of Louisiana. The cession was made by the secret treaty of San Ildefonso of the
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