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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 166 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 88 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 20 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 12 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 10 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 8 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The cotton question. It has long been a problem of deepest interest to Philosopher Greeley --the Marat of the American press — how it was possible for the world to get along without the slave-grown cotton of the Southern States of this Union. He tried Africa, India, South America, by turns, pressed with zeal the expediency of substituting flax grown by free labor for it, and set the ingenuity of all abolitionism to work to invent machinery whereby it was to be wrought as cheaply and as successfully as cotton. This plan exploded, and then the Philosopher relied upon Providence to develop some plan to break the league with crime in the Southern States! But a prominent Southern man comes to the relief of the Philosopher of the abolitionists. This comforter expresses the fear (from the tenor of the language employed, we might infer it to be the wish,) that the European demand for Southern cotton will now fall off to nothing, in consequence of the subjugation of China. The Engli