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" Massachusetts, only one-eighth our size, comes within two of our number of representatives, we being cut down to thirteen, while she rises to eleven. And thus we, who once swayed the councils of the "Union, find our power gone, and our influence on the... "
Southern Planter and Farmer - Page 99
1852
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy, Volume 1

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 756 pages
...a ratio of 27'52, and that of Massachusetts at the still heavier and more startling rate of 34'81. With a territorial area thirty per cent, larger than...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the plow to speed tho politician — should wo not, in too many cases, say with more propriety, the demagogue...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 760 pages
...of her Congressional representation ; and Massachusetts, only one-eighth our size, comes within tiro of our number of representatives, we being cut down...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the plow to speed the politician — should we not, in too many oases, say with more propriety, the demagogue...
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COTTON KINGDOM

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 408 pages
...a ratio of 27*52, and that of Massachusetts at the still heavier and more startling rate of 34-81. With a territorial area thirty per cent, larger than...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the * Abstract of the Seventh Census, and the able work of Professor Tucker, on the " Progress of the United...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 750 pages
...and more startling rate of 34'81. With a territorial area thirty per cent, larger than New York, wo have but little more than one-third of her Congressional...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the plow to speed tho politician—should we not, in too many cases, say with more propriety, the demagogue...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 756 pages
...of vital importance to our prosperity, if not to our safety. As other States accumulate the meun.s of material greatness, and glide past us on the road...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the plow to speed the politician — should we not, in too many cases, say with more propriety, the demagogue...
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the ...

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 428 pages
...prosperity, if not to our safety. As other States accumulate tho means of material greatness, and glido past us on the road to wealth and empire, we slight...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the * Abstract of the Seventh Census, and the able work of Professor Tucker, nn th- •- Progress of the...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 774 pages
...the means of material greatness, and glide past us on the road to wealth and empire, we slight tho warnings of dull statistics, and drive lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the plow to speed the politician — should we not, in too many cases, say with more propriety, tho demagogue...
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the ...

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1862 - 424 pages
...larger than New York, we have bnt little more than one-third of her Congressional representa^ tion ; and Massachusetts, only one-eighth our size, comes...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the * Abstract of the Seventh Census, and the able work of Professor Tucker, oa t!ie " Progress of' the...
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The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South

Broadus Mitchell - 1921 - 288 pages
...contained admissions, however true, which would be useful to abolitionists, contained the words: "... thus we, who once swayed the councils of the Union,...lazily along the field of ancient customs, or stop the plow to speed the politician — should we not, in too many cases, say ... the demagogue? . . . With...
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The United States of America ...

David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 pages
...self-gratulation. They show that we have not done our part in bringing the land into cultivation. ... As other states accumulate the means of material greatness...drive lazily along the field of ancient customs." Governor Wise, of the same state, wrote seven years later: "Commerce has long since spread her sails...
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