Can you pick cotton rapidly?"

He, too, raised cotton on hired land, and was bringing up his childrenthere were eight of them, he saidto habits of industry.

That ought to be enough honor for a man who a year ago was growing cotton on an old plantation miles away from civilization.

Buy oil if market falls sell cotton.

While the South produces less cotton, and we lose the habit of buying of it, the cotton culture will become acclimated elsewhere; the future will thus be destroyed like the present; final ruin will approach with hasty strides.

After they had received the order to return home, Judy, with aching limbs, joined the other slaves who were wearily wending their way to the little out-house where the overseer was weighing their cotton.

In the garret I saw the spindles for spinning cotton and wool, and the hand looms for weaving the homespun.

Almost the only things not made on the farm which were in general use there were axes, trace chains and the hoes used in cultivating the cotton.

English vessels were perpetually running the blockade to bring cotton to England and goods to the Southern portsa risky but highly profitable business.

The Government, it is interesting to note, have commissioned certain firms in Alexandria "to buy cotton extensively from small proprietors at a reasonable rate, on Government account, to be stored until the arrival of more prosperous times."

Sarah, being in a state of pregnancy, failed of executing her daily allotted task of hoeing cotton.

He paid "one-third of his product for the use of the land, he paid an exorbitant fee for recording the contract by which he paid his pound of flesh; he was charged two or three times as much as he ought to pay for ginning his cotton; and, finally, he turned over his crop to be eaten up in commissions, if any was still left to him.

He chopped cotton and plowed and scraped cotton.

Alfred had been a teamster for Dandridge for many years, and was familiar with the road, as he had hauled cotton into Memphis for his master for so long a time he could hardly tell when he began.

Their wives are employed under the direction of the mistress in manufacturing cotton and linen for the use of the family.

When the planter wanted more cotton picked than usual, the overseer would arrange a race.

At a station called Sequin, I obtained lots of cotton seeds, and gathered some cotton in the fields as we went along.

It is quite true that there is a large class of reasoners who would weigh all questions of right and wrong in the balance of trade; butwe cannot bring ourselves to believe that it is a wise political economy which makes cotton by unmaking men, or a far-seeing statesmanship which looks on an immediate money-profit as a safe equivalent for a beggared public sentiment.

iv yon Yankees could nobbut just see, Heaw they're clemmin' an' starvin' poor weavers loike me, Aw think they'd soon sattle their bother, an' strive To send us some cotton to keep us alive.

Soon after this it chanced that the poor widow sent her children to the town to purchase cotton, needles, ribbon, and tape.

But, in the first place, to export cotton, they must produce itthey must have money; it is almost impossible that the State should be rich when all its citizens are in distress; then the exportation itself will be exposed to some difficulties if the United States organize a blockade.

A traveler who made a zig-zag journey from Charleston to St. Louis in the early months of 1827, found cotton "a plague."

Besides, I write for many mothers who are compelled to use cotton, on account of the expense of flannel.

" The troops of Anthony wore cotton when he visited Cleopatra, and she was arrayed in vestments of fine muslin.

"The slaves had to weave cotton and knit sox.