Report of the Committee of ways and means on the subject of direct trade. ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781418194369
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: The Committee on Ways and Means to whom was referred, the bill incorporating the Alabama Direct Trade and Exchange Company, have duly considered the same, and believing that there is no one subject in which all our citizens have a deeper or more lasting interest than a speedy and radical change in our import trade, beg leave to make the following report: The skilful and prudent merchant, in selecting a site for extensive, profitable and durable commerce, will examine carefully the whole surrounding country, consider well its climates, soils and seasons; its valleys, hills and mountains; its vegetable, animal and mineral productions; its lakes, rivers and roads; its bays, seas, gulfs and oceans, with their peculiar currents, tides and winds; look well to the natural disposition, capacity, occupation, wealth, habits and customs, opinions, political, religious and moral, of the whole surrounding population.