 So it is with these people; the acquisition of a respectable position in the scale of wealth appears so difficult that they decline the hopeless pursuit, and many of them settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all...  A Journey in the Back Country - Page 298by Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 pages
...elevation.*' Mr. Tnrver, of Missouri, in a work on " Domestic Manufactures in the South and West," says: " I have observed of late years, that an evident deterioration...this part of the population, the younger portion of ir being less educated, less industrious, and in ever}1 point of view less respectable than their ancestor«."... | |
 | 1856 - 652 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed, of late...point of view less respectable than their ancestors." Wm. Gregg, Esq., in an address before the South Carolina Institute, in 1851, from which Mr. Weston... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed, of late...point of view less respectable than their ancestors." Wm. Gregg, Esq., in an address before the South Carolina Institute, in 1851, from which Mr. "Weston... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1847 - 640 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years...point of view less respectable than their ancestors. Such a state of things should not exist in the present age in such a country as ours. It should be... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 576 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years...point of view less respectable than their ancestors. Such a state of things should not exist in the present age, in such a country as ours. It should be... | |
 | J. D. B. De Bow - 1852 - 580 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and be come the almost passive subjects of all ite consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years...point of view less respectable than their ancestors. Sin'ha state of things should not exist in the present age, in such a country as ours. It should he... | |
 | Philo Tower - 1856 - 438 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years...point of view less respectable than their ancestors. * * * * It ' is, in an eminent degree, the interest of the slave-holder that a way to wealth and respectability... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 434 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years,...point of view less respectable than their ancestors." Equally worthy of attention is the testimony of Gov. Hammond, of South Carolina, who says : — " According... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years,...point of view less respectable than their ancestors." Equally worthy of attention is the testimony of Gov. Hammond, of South Carolina, who says : — " According... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 pages
...settle down into habits of idleness, and become the almost passive subjects of all its consequences. And I lament to say that I have observed of late years, that an evident deterioration's taking place in this part of the population, the younger portion of it being less educated,... | |
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