Southern wealth and northern profits, as exhibited in statistical facts and official figures: showing the necessity of union to the...

Kettell, Thomas Prentice, fl. 1852-1866 Southern wealth and northern profits, as exhibited in statistical facts and official figures: showing the necessity of union to the...

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GLC#
GLC00267.079
Type
Books & pamphlets
Date
1860
Author/Creator
Kettell, Thomas Prentice, fl. 1852-1866
Title
Southern wealth and northern profits, as exhibited in statistical facts and official figures: showing the necessity of union to the...
Place Written
New York
Pagination
1 v. : 173, 16 p. : advertisements Height: 24 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

(title continues)... future prosperity and welfare of the republic. Published in New York by George W. and John A. Wood. In the introduction, Kettell remarks, "It was the principle of taxation without representation that the colonies resisted, and it is the principle of the 'irrepressible conflict,' based avowedly on a 'higher law,' that the South resists... A prompt retreat from this dangerous agitation within the shadow of the Constitution, is the only means of realizing the rich future, which will be the reward only of harmony, good faith, and loyalty to the constitution." Sixteen pages at the end of the book contain advertisements for textbooks.

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