The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24

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standard OF values yellow Leaf recognized the
coin OF the realm pound OF tobacco became the
unit OF value The prices Of labor and all commodities
given many pounds OF tobacco. All tributes and
were paid III oba All salaries paid in the
way by payment Of tobacco the lvings the
clergymcn were secured When mades brought
1919 be the wives Of the bachelors OF the settlement,
they paid for in tobacco 1t is easy to see how in
such fluctuations inevitable in currency like this
distress conc later It quite im-
possible make stable currency commodity sub
icc to many changes Of and another al
together impossible to regulate and keep balanced the
supply and the demand insure stability and consistency
It easily to be SEEN therefore, how Of the distress
that the colons in their economic affairs grew
Of the instability Of the commodity which had
the currency OF realm Only little money ever found
its into the colony The balances between the tobacco
grower in America and the commission merchant in England
was frequently i'll favor Of the English merchant that the
amount OF money brought from England eagerly small
And even this small amount could not long endure the
petition OF SO cheap and uncertain money tobacco AMI
soon hurried away other places markets where
III q more congenal atmosphere had better chance for
and service.
III. twas the cultivation OF tobacco that determined
peculiar system of labor under which the colony lived
rved, and which fastened Upon the American people
system Of African slavery The form OF labor known as
ndenurc service and the rcdemptonists traced
to the increasing labor the cultivation Of
bacco. In the northern colonies the conditions were such
require the Of service and labor There
large tracts Of land be cleared cuvated So
among the northern colonies there demand only
domestic service and such labor incident the
tivaon Of smaller and familiar crops, and wherever
African slavery maintained it only in the de-
sutory fashion and employed mainly for domestic purposes
Hence the grades Of society nearly plainly marked
in the northern colonies they the southern colo
MES The northern colonies presented and preserved much
homogeneous society The seeming arstocracy OF the
South grew from this very condition of affairs. From the
nature OF the there bound be class Of masters
and class Of servants slaves.
IN The cultivation OF tobacco determined the plantation
life by which the Virginia Colony distinguished. 1t
fixed the life Of colonsts being rather than urban
feature which distinguished it, especially from the settle
New England. On this the basis OF repre-
sentaton in the General Assembly fixed as from tile
county rather than from the towns. In spite OF vgorol:
and repeated efforts the part Of the General Assembly
this Of things continued It earnestly underworld
demand for fresh land from year made it
that large OF land should be brought under cuva
These great plantations thus established then,
Selves so speak, separate Jurisdictions municipalities
Each plantation sufficient itself i'll all things
those that imported from the old country They ha
their industries necessary oste manufacture OF all til
things required for the life Of the plantation Most Of tier
had their own wlarvcs which vessels from England ande
and delivered their freight, and from which the rcturnn
cargocs were loaded effort spoken Of above to brn
l;ic into the cities, again and again undertaken
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