The Industrial Resources Etc Of The Southern And Western States Vol 2 Of 3

Author : J. D. B. De Bow
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ISBN 13 : 9781333039332
Total Pages : 606 pages
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Download or read book The Industrial Resources, Etc;, Of the Southern and Western States, Vol. 3 of 3 written by J. D. B. De Bow and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Industrial Resources, Etc;, Of the Southern and Western States, Vol. 3 of 3: Embracing a View of Their Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Slave and Free Labor, Slavery Institutions, Products, Etc;, Of the South The legislature refused the charter. The French, meeting with no sympathy on this side, receiving no overtures from the South to send their boats to Norfolk, proceeded to build their vessels. They selected new-york for their American station, and sent over their steamers filled with officers and ser vants so bedizened with toggery, that passengers could not tell one from the other. Finally, after a trip or two, one of these steamers, loaded down with passengers and freight, put to sea from new-york, and after getting fairly out into blue water, discovered that the sugar had been forgotten. The cap tain made a speech at the breakfast table the next morning, and offered to put back for sugar if the passengers would say so: but it was too late. The passengers had already become sour. This sugar business broke up the line. Johnny Crapo retired from the contest, and left the field to John Bull, to be by him enjoyed without a competitor for some ten or twelve years. No human sagacity could penetrate clearly enough into the future then, to see all that has since actually turned up in the way of ocean steam navigation and steamship enter prises; but there is little or no doubt that, had the suggestions of this journal, at the time they were made, been adopted by the advocates of direct trade in the South - that, had the legislature of Virginia granted that ocean steam navigation charter, Norfolk would at this day have been the centre of steamship enterprise for the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.