The North and the South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave StatesJ.P. Jewett, 1856 - 134 páginas |
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aggregate agricultural products Alabama amount contributed Annual Product Arkansas Berkeley Bow's bushels CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Census Compendium census returns cent circulation Connecticut Cotton Delaware dollars ending June Exports fifteen slave Florida Free and Slave free colored free population Georgia Hampshire Hands employed Illinois increase Indiana Iowa Jersey June 30 Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts master or owner Michigan million Mississippi Missouri nearly non-slaveholding North Northern Number of acres Number of Hands number of papers number of scholars number of slaves Ohio Pennsylvania Personal Estate postages pounds printed of copies Public Schools ratio Real and Personal Remaining Counties Rhode Island show the number slaveholding slavery South Carolina Southern square miles Tennessee Territory Texas thousand tion tonnage built tons Total tures UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA valuation Value of Farms value of lands Value of Real value of slaves Value per Acre Vermont Virginia Wages per month white population whole area whole number Wisconsin York
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Página 93 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 92 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Página 92 - ... have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Página 57 - I can show you, with sorrow, in the older portions of Alabama, and in my native county of Madison, the sad memorials of the artless and exhausting culture of cotton. Our small planters, after taking the cream off their lands, unable to restore them by rest, manures, or otherwise, are going further west and south, in search of other virgin lands, which they may and will despoil and impoverish in like manner.
Página 125 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Página 57 - ... that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where, fifty years ago, scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas...
Página 129 - Territory, any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet or circular containing any denial of the right of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years.
Página 128 - Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years. " No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Territory...
Página 22 - The legal maxim of partus sequitur ventrem is coeval with the existence of the right of property itself, and is founded in wisdom and justice. It is on the justice and inviolability of this maxim that the master foregoes the service of the female slave, has her nursed and attended during the period of her gestation, and raises the helpless infant offspring. The value of the property justifies the expense, and I do not hesitate to say that in its increase consists much of our wealth.
Página 97 - He failed to realize that without public taxation public schools can never succeed, but he did realize that— the great obstacle in the organization of common schools is not so much a deficiency in the means to sustain them, but it is attributable to the indifference that pervades the public mind on the subject of education.