[1382] Works: Ford, vi, 55-57.
[1383] Moultrie vs. Georgia, 1796, dismissed in 1798, Am. State Papers, Public Lands, i, 167; and see vol. ii, 83-84, of this work.
[1384] Chappell, 92-93.
[1385] Ib. 67-68; Haskins, 13-15.
[1386] "No men stood higher in Georgia than the men who composed these several companies and the members of the Legislature who made the sale." (Smith, 173.)
[1387] See Haskins, 25, and sources there cited.
[1388] The effect of Whitney's invention is shown in striking fashion by the increase of cotton exports. In 1791 only 189,500 pounds were exported from the entire United States. Ten years later Georgia alone exported 3,444,420 pounds. (Jones and Dutcher: Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia, 165.)
[1389] Priest: Travels in the United States, 132; and see Haskins, 3.
Otis speaks of the "land jobbing prospectors," and says that "money is the object here [Boston] with all ranks and degrees." (Otis to Harper, April 10, 1807, Morison: Otis, i, 283.)
The national character "is degenerated into a system of stock-jobbing, extortion and usury.... By the God of Heaven, if we go on in this way, our nation will sink into disgrace and slavery." (Tyler to Madison, Jan. 15, 1810, Tyler, i, 235.)