Speech of Hon. Frank P. Blair, Jr., Of Missouri

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Frank P. Blair, Jr., Of Missouri: On the Acquisition of Territory in Central and South America, to Be Colonized With Free Blacks, and Held as a Dependency by the United States, Delivered in the House of Representatives, on the 14th Day of January, 1858 In Australia, once the land of convicts, the experiment works well. There parliamentary tactics are plied, and we hear of de bates ending in the expulsion of a ministry who fail to meet the public expectation. It is now a land of gold, of herds, of agriculture, of commerce, of busy cities filled with refinement. Earl Grey tells us that in 1850 a census was taken of one element of this prosperity: Of persons who had originally been prisoners, who were actually in the enjoyment either of entire freedom, or that degree of freedom conferred by conditional par don - the result of the investigation was to show that of such persons in these colonies there could not have been less than forty-eight thousand, and out of this large number, those who were not, in some way or other, maintaining themselves honestly, either by their labor or the property they had acquired, were so few that they formed a mere fraction of the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.