The South in the Building of the Nation: Economic history, 1865-1909, ed. by J. C. BallaghJulian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Joseph Walker McSpadden Southern historical publication society, 1909 - American literature |
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Page 633 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The NORTH, in an unrestrained intercourse with the SOUTH, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise, and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The SOUTH, in the same intercourse benefiting by the agency of the NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and...
Page 537 - All property, not exempted from taxation by this Constitution, shall be assessed for taxation at its fair cash value, estimated at the price it would bring at a fair voluntary sale...
Page 418 - It appears to us to follow, as a logical and necessary consequence, that Congress has the power to issue the obligations of the United States in such form, and to impress upon them such qualities as currency for the purchase of merchandise and the payment of debts, as accord with the usage of sovereign governments.
Page 486 - Sec. 8. The General Assembly shall not have power to levy State taxes for any one year to exceed in the aggregate one per cent of the assessed valuation of the property of the State for that year.
Page 190 - ... of January 1808, at 40 feet in the rock and 58 feet from the top of the gum, were rewarded by an ample flow of strong brine for their furnace, and ceased boring. Now was presented another difficulty: How to get the stronger brine from the bottom of the well, undiluted by the weaker brines and fresh water from above. There was no precedent here ; they had to invent, contrive, and construct anew. A metal tube would naturally suggest itself to them ; but there were neither metal tubes, nor sheet...
Page 417 - With these provisions in force as fundamental law, Congress passed, July 13th, 1866,* an act, the second clause of the 9th section of which enacts : " That every National banking association, State bank, or State banking association, shall pay a tax of ten per centum on the amount of notes of any person, State bank, or State banking association, used for circulation and paid out by them after the 1st day of August, 1866, and such tax shall be assessed and paid in such manner as shall be prescribed...
Page 613 - Cory, Jan. 7, 1919.] The southern district consists of all the States south of the Mason and Dixon line and the Ohio River and east of the ninety-eighth meridian, in a general way. It includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the eastern part of Texas.
Page 190 - Alleghanies, if not in the United States. The wonder is not that it required eighteen months or more to prepare, bore and complete this well for use, but, rather, that it was accomplished at all under the circumstances.
Page 190 - In order to reach, if possible, the bottom of the mire and oozy quick-sand through which the salt water flowed, they provided a straight, well-formed, hollow sycamore tree, with four feet internal diameter, sawed off square at each end. This is technically called a "gum.
Page 190 - By this means the gum was gotten sufficiently tight to be so bailed out as to determine whether the salt water came up through the rock. This turned out to be the case. The quantity welling up through the rock was extremely small, but the strength was greater than any yet gotten, and this was encouraging. They were anxious to follow it down, but how? They could not blast a hole down there under water; but this idea occurred to them; they knew that rock blasters drilled their powder holes two or three...