Statistical View of the United States: Embracing Its Territory, Population--white, Free Colored, and Slave--moral and Social Condition, Industry, Property, and Revenue, the Detailed Statistics of Cities, Towns and Counties : Being a Compendium of the Seventh Census to which are Added the Results of Every Previous Census, Beginning with 1790, in Comparative Tables, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes, Based Upon the Schedules and Other Official Sources of Information, 4권

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9 페이지 - Statistics are far from being the barren array of figures ingeniously and laboriously combined into columns and tables, which many persons are apt to suppose them. They constitute rather the ledger of a nation, in which, like the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one...
147 페이지 - A school shall be maintained in each school district, at least three months in each year. Any school district neglecting to maintain such school shall be deprived for the ensuing year of its proportion of the income of the primary school fund, and of all funds arising from taxes for the support of schools.
149 페이지 - This is the most numerous class of schools, and they are generally in the most deplorable condition. The greater part of them are kept by females, but some by old men, whose only qualification for this employment seems to be their unfitness for every other.
95 페이지 - the number includes slavehirers," and furthermore, that " where the party owns slaves in different counties, or in different States, he will be entered more than once." Now every Southerner, who has any practical knowledge of affairs, must know, and does know, that every New Year's day, like almost every other day, is desecrated in the South, by publicly hiring out slaves to large numbers of non-slaveholders. The slave-owners, who are the exclusive manufacturers of...
31 페이지 - Mexico, 3 leagues from land opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande as provided in the fifth article of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thence as defined in the said article, up the middle of that river to the point where the parallel of 31° 47...
149 페이지 - It is true that, in the Northwestern States, and particularly those which are exempt from slaves, the number of their elementary schools is much greater than that of the Southern or Southwestern States, although their population is not much more dense ; but, besides that. the settlers of those States, who were mostly from New England or New York, brought with them a deep sense of the value and importance of the schools for the people, they were better able to provide such schools, in consequence...
146 페이지 - It is a noble and beautiful idea of providing wise institutions for the unborn millions of the West ; of anticipating their good by a sort of parental providence ; and of associating together the social and the territorial development of the people, by incorporating these provisions with the land titles derived from the public domain, and making school reservations and road reservations essential parts of that policy.
149 페이지 - ... their elementary schools is much greater than that of the Southern or Southwestern States, although their population is not much more dense ; but, besides that. the settlers of those States, who were mostly from New England or New York, brought with them a deep sense of the value and importance of the schools for the people, they were better able to provide such schools, in consequence of their making their settlements, as had been done in their parent States, in townships and villages. We thus...
31 페이지 - Grande, as provided in the fifth article, of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; thence, as defined in the said article, up the middle of that river to the point where the parallel of 31° 47', north latitude crosses the same ; thence due west one hundred miles ; thence south to the parallel of 31° 20...
105 페이지 - it is a fair deduction from the facts that the marriage returns in England point out periods of prosperity little less distinctly than the funds measure the hopes and fears of the money market. If the one is the barometer of credit, the other is the barometer of prosperity, present in part, but future, expected, anticipated in still greater part.

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