 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Inventions - 1822 - 524 pages
...paid off; our capitals increased; and our lands have trebled in value. We cannot express the weight of obligation which the country owes to this invention;...presentiment may be formed from the reflection that cotton is rapidlv supplanting wool, flax, silk, and even furs, in manufactures, and may one day profitably supply... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1825 - 594 pages
...been paid, our capitals increased, and our lauda trebled in value. We cannot express the weight of obligation which the country owes to this invention: the extent of it cannot now be seen." i Mr. Whitney was a gentleman of extensive literary and scientific attainments, of liberal and expanded... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...been paid off, our capitals increased, and our lands trebled in value. We cannot express the weight of obligation which the country owes to this invention ; the extent of it cannot now bo seen." — Yes, and when happier days shall return, and the South, awakening from her suicidal delusion,... | |
 | Commerce - 1849 - 716 pages
...Our debts have been paid off. Our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which...invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen. Some faint presentiments may be formed, from the reflection that cotton is rapidly supplanting wool, flax, silk,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...Our debts have been paid off. Our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which...invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen. Some faint presentiments may be formed, from the reflection that cotton is rapidly supplanting wool, flax, silk,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and, our lands trebled tiiemsclves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which the country owes to this wwn&m. The extent of it cannot now be seen. Some faint presentiment may be formed from the reffection... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...Our debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which...wool, .flax, silk, and even furs, in manufactures, arid may one day profitably supply the use of specie in our East India trade. Our sister States, also,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 140 pages
...paid otf, our capitals increased, and our lands trebled in value. We can not express the weight of obligation which the country owes to this invention ; the extent of it can not now be seen." Yes, and when happier days shall return, and the South, awakening from her suicidal... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - Slavery - 1860 - 186 pages
...paid off, our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled in value. We cannot express the weight of obligation which the country owes to this invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen." This clearly indicates the exhausted state in which 200 years of colonial dependence had left the colonies,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - Slavery - 1860 - 198 pages
...paid off, our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled in value. We cannot express the weight of obligation which the country owes to this invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen." This clearly indicates the exhausted state in which 200 years of colonial dependence had left the colonies,... | |
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Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the... 
