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Page 145
... prosperity " continued . " One of our leading private bankers , " the Commercial Advertiser re- ported , " who has just returned from the South , after spending several of the winter months in New Orleans informed us that he has seldom ...
... prosperity " continued . " One of our leading private bankers , " the Commercial Advertiser re- ported , " who has just returned from the South , after spending several of the winter months in New Orleans informed us that he has seldom ...
Page 186
... prosperity of the merchants - tariff reform , internal improvements , a railroad to the Pacific - were " all laid aside as subjects not worth talking about , compared with slavery " ? Was it any wonder , then , that every few years a ...
... prosperity of the merchants - tariff reform , internal improvements , a railroad to the Pacific - were " all laid aside as subjects not worth talking about , compared with slavery " ? Was it any wonder , then , that every few years a ...
Page 321
... prosperity , would receive proper consideration at the hands of legislators . In quest of this goal , the vast majority of the merchants de- voted much of their time and a good deal of their private funds for more than a decade to the ...
... prosperity , would receive proper consideration at the hands of legislators . In quest of this goal , the vast majority of the merchants de- voted much of their time and a good deal of their private funds for more than a decade to the ...
Contents
THE EMPIRE CITY AND THE COTTON KINGDOM | 1 |
THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 | 15 |
DEFENDING THE COMPROMISE | 34 |
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