Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39F. Hunt, 1858 |
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... Foreign coins , official value of 350 Coton azotique , or gun cotton , duty on ... Cotton crop of the United States 735 602 Formiche Islet , Mediterranean , fixed light on 114 Fortunes of the ancients .. 140 46 imports of , into Great ...
... Foreign coins , official value of 350 Coton azotique , or gun cotton , duty on ... Cotton crop of the United States 735 602 Formiche Islet , Mediterranean , fixed light on 114 Fortunes of the ancients .. 140 46 imports of , into Great ...
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... foreign coins a legal tender , and placed one mint at Phila- delphia , which it was expensive to reach , and nobody had any interest in paying the expenses . Foreign coins served the banks better than Ame- rican coins , because people ...
... foreign coins a legal tender , and placed one mint at Phila- delphia , which it was expensive to reach , and nobody had any interest in paying the expenses . Foreign coins served the banks better than Ame- rican coins , because people ...
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... foreign goods , and for the reason that specie can only be readily exported when its place in circulation is readily supplied with paper . We now , 1858 , may illustrate . The amount of specie in the country is estimated at ...
... foreign goods , and for the reason that specie can only be readily exported when its place in circulation is readily supplied with paper . We now , 1858 , may illustrate . The amount of specie in the country is estimated at ...
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... foreign element . The birth places were as follows : - Years . 1845 1850 1855 Per cent . Foreign . American . Total . 32.6 87,280 77,086 114,366 45.6 63,329 75,459 138,788 54.3 88,556 74,073 162,629 So rapidly has the foreign element in ...
... foreign element . The birth places were as follows : - Years . 1845 1850 1855 Per cent . Foreign . American . Total . 32.6 87,280 77,086 114,366 45.6 63,329 75,459 138,788 54.3 88,556 74,073 162,629 So rapidly has the foreign element in ...
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... foreign trade . The steam tonnage of that country may now be set down as about 12 per cent of the total tonnage of her mercantile marine , whereas the statistics will show it to be about one - third less , owing to the diminished ...
... foreign trade . The steam tonnage of that country may now be set down as about 12 per cent of the total tonnage of her mercantile marine , whereas the statistics will show it to be about one - third less , owing to the diminished ...
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Page 270 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs, America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 270 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
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Page 271 - ... be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war...
Page 387 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...