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  AGRICULTURE. 
  

  

  With 
  what 
  ingratitude 
  has 
  this 
  great 
  benefactor 
  of 
  his 
  

   country 
  and 
  the 
  world 
  been 
  treated? 
  Millions 
  would 
  

   not 
  adequately 
  have 
  rewarded 
  him 
  for 
  his 
  great 
  boon 
  ; 
  

   and 
  yet 
  the 
  very 
  name 
  of 
  Whitney 
  has 
  almost 
  ceased 
  to 
  

   be 
  used 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  machine 
  of 
  his 
  invention, 
  

   which 
  is 
  now 
  known 
  familiarly 
  by 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  

   manufacturers, 
  and 
  who 
  at 
  most 
  can 
  only 
  claim 
  some 
  

   slight 
  modification 
  or 
  improvement 
  upon 
  the 
  original. 
  

   Thus, 
  we 
  have 
  Carver's 
  gins; 
  Bates 
  and 
  Hyde's, 
  At- 
  

   wood's, 
  Parkhurst's, 
  Taylor's, 
  and 
  numerous 
  others, 
  

   known 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  made. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  true 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Whitney 
  was 
  not 
  wholly 
  uncom- 
  

   pensated. 
  The 
  State 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina 
  made 
  Miller 
  and 
  

   Whitne}^ 
  a 
  grant 
  of 
  fifty 
  thousand 
  dollars, 
  paj^able 
  in 
  

   four 
  instalments. 
  The 
  State 
  of 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  in 
  1802, 
  

   levied 
  a 
  tax 
  on 
  each 
  saw 
  employed, 
  for 
  the 
  term 
  of 
  five 
  

   years, 
  for 
  their 
  benefit, 
  and 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  Tennessee 
  

   did 
  the 
  same 
  for 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  four 
  years. 
  

  

  Both 
  South 
  Carolina 
  and 
  Tennessee 
  suspended 
  the 
  

   payment 
  of 
  the 
  stipulated 
  sums 
  for 
  some 
  years. 
  North 
  

   Carolina, 
  however, 
  was 
  true 
  to 
  her 
  engagement. 
  

  

  In 
  Georgia, 
  although 
  the 
  patent 
  was 
  general^ 
  in- 
  

   vaded, 
  there 
  were 
  some 
  who 
  respected 
  the 
  invention, 
  

   and 
  purchased 
  the 
  right 
  of 
  using 
  it. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  instruments 
  by 
  which 
  this 
  privilege 
  was 
  

   conveyed 
  having, 
  by 
  rare 
  chance, 
  been 
  preserved 
  in 
  the 
  

   family 
  of 
  the 
  writer, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Appendix 
  (see 
  H.). 
  

   as 
  a 
  document 
  of 
  curious 
  interest, 
  and 
  as 
  serving 
  to 
  show 
  

  

  any 
  sort 
  of 
  hyperbole, 
  to 
  hang 
  upon 
  a 
  thread! 
  Should 
  any 
  dire 
  cala- 
  

   mity 
  befall 
  the 
  laud 
  of 
  cotton, 
  a 
  thousand 
  of 
  our 
  merchant 
  ships 
  would 
  

   rot 
  idly 
  in 
  dock, 
  ten 
  thousand 
  mills 
  must 
  stop 
  their 
  busy 
  looms, 
  and 
  

   two 
  million 
  mouths 
  would 
  starve 
  for 
  lack 
  of 
  food 
  to 
  feed 
  them. 
  

  

  Dickens. 
  

  

  