: The Cotton Kingdom volume 1 (of 2) by Olmsted Frederick Law -

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INTRODUCTORY.--THE PRESENT CRISIS 1

THE JOURNEY FROM WASHINGTON 28

VIRGINIA.--GLIMPSES BY RAILROAD 38

THE ECONOMY OF VIRGINIA 108

VIRGINIA AND ITS ECONOMY--CONTINUED 141

SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA SURVEYED 224

THE SOUTH-WEST--ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI 272

MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA 285

FROM LOUISIANA THROUGH TEXAS 342

COTTON AND SLAVERY.

INTRODUCTORY.--THE PRESENT CRISIS.

The mountain ranges, the valleys, and the great waters of America, all trend north and south, not east and west. An arbitrary political line may divide the north part from the south part, but there is no such line in nature: there can be none, socially. While water runs downhill, the currents and counter currents of trade, of love, of consanguinity, and fellowship, will flow north and south. The unavoidable comminglings of the people in a land like this, upon the conditions which the slavery of a portion of the population impose, make it necessary to peace that we should all live under the same laws and respect the same flag. No government could long control its own people, no government could long exist, that would allow its citizens to be subject to such indignities under a foreign government as those to which the citizens of the United States heretofore have been required to submit under their own, for the sake of the tranquillity of the South. Nor could the South, with its present purposes, live on terms of peace with any foreign nation, between whose people and its own there was no division, except such an one as might be maintained by means of forts, frontier-guards and custom-houses, edicts, passports and spies. Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are each much better adapted for an independent government, and under an independent government would be far more likely to live at peace with England, than the South to remain peaceably separated from the North of this country.

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