Excerpt from A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests in North Carolina: Being an Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple; Together With Some Information Respecting the Principal Farmers, Manufacturing Establishments and Warehouses; With Statistics Exhibiting the Growth of Tobacco in the Western Counties
Perhaps nothing has proved so great a stimulus to the greed Of conquest, the expansion Of empire, the grasp Of colonization, the spread of civilization and the activity of. Commerce, as the spur Of appetite awaked by the knowledge of these newly found modern luxuries. The remotest regions of the earth were penetrated to procure them; the most active traffic was begotten to exchange for them, or the most determined wars were origin ated to secure them. And now, since regular channels have been provided for their procurement, or systematic cultivation adopted to supply them, they have become the great mainsprings Of modern commercial enterprise and the great mainstays of modern manufacturing energies.
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