 | Virginia - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...the Union — when her commerce exceeded in amount that of all the New England states combined — when the city of Norfolk owned more than one hundred...period of the war of independence, the commerce of Virginia was four times larger than that of New York. In 1853, the imports of the latter amounted to... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...State in the Union ; when her commerce exceeded in amount that of all the New England States combined ; when • the City of Norfolk owned more than one hundred...direct foreign trade exceeded that of the City of New-York, now the centre of trade and the great emporium of North America. At the period of the war... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...State in the Union ; when her commerce exceeded in amount that of all the New England States combined ; when the City of Norfolk owned more than one hundred...direct foreign trade exceeded that of the City of New-York, now the centre of trade and the great emporium of North America. At the period of the war... | |
 | William Elsey Connelley - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...the New England States combined; when the city of Norfolk owned more than one hundred trading-ships, and her direct foreign trade exceeded that of the city of New York, now the center of trade and the great emporium of North America. At the period of the War of Independence,... | |
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... drama of human life. The records of former days show that at a period not very remote, Virginia stood preeminently the first commercial State in the Union; when her commerce exceeded in amount that of all the New England States combined; when the... 