A View of the Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy, of the United States of America (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Charles Jared Ingersoll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330889320 ISBN 13: 9781330889329

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A View of the Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy, of the United States of America

Coffee, sugar, tea, tobacco, cotton, rice, peltries, and even ginseng and flaxseed, with a prolific et caetera of mi nor articles, have become as necessary to the comfort of mankind as flour, Wine, and oil to their subsistence. With the former, the world has but a late acquaintance and, constituting, as they do, so material a portion of food, and so delightful a part of raiment, it cannot be surprising that commerce should amplify in proportion to their de mand and usefulness, or that every region should be ex plored to procure them. With 1200 miles of sea coast on the east, and a chain 'of corresponding lakes and navigable waters on the west, wanting almost-cverythiiig Eumpe can afford, and with the ability to supply almost every thing Europe can desire, it would seem as if nature had designated the United States for a great commercial em pire. The prodigious and unexampled progress this country has made in prosperity, population, and power, since the adoption of the federal constitution, though not, perhaps, so great as it would have been had it not been for the British treaty and its effects, are to be ascribed not more to the excellence of that constitution, than to theextension of our trade, favoured and forced as it has been by the remoteness of our situation from the devastating commotions of Europe, and to the pacific neutrality so wisely adopted and honestly pursued by the American government. With such natural advantages as we enjoy, a free trade is a greater blessing than the lenity of our laws, high price of labour, and cheapness of living. Liv ing is cheaper, and the climate preferable, in many of the provinces of South America; but, having no trade to stimulate reproduction, to enliven, enlighten, and enrich them, the inhabitants, we learn, if our limited means of information are correct, remain to this day uninformed and poor, in the midst of a profusion of the precious metals, and an exuberance of nature.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330889320
• ISBN 13: 9781330889329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159