 | Lacy K. Ford - 1988 - 450 sivua
...before the short-staple cotton boom "the whole interior . . . was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating, for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry." As a result of the boom. Johnson declared, "individuals who were depressed in poverty and sunk in idleness... | |
 | Thad Sitton, Dan K. Utley - 1997 - 348 sivua
...effects of the gin: "The whole interior of the Southern states was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their...opened views to them, which set the whole country in motion."16 The judge did not exaggerate. From a high of only 6,276 bales in 1792, cotton production... | |
 | 2005 - 248 sivua
...interior of the Southern states was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some ohjeet to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this maehine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in motion. From childhood to age.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 502 sivua
...experienced its utility ? The whole interior of the southern states was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their...lucrative employment. Individuals, who were depressed in poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 410 sivua
...its amazing utility. " The whole interior of the southern States was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their...lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed in poverty, and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability 4 As merchants,... | |
 | 1831 - 916 sivua
...experienced its utility ?" the whok interior of the Southern States was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their...active motion. From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have... | |
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The whole interior of the Southern States was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating, for want of some object to engage their attention, and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them, which set the whole... 
