The Expansion of the American People, Social And Territorial
The Expansion of the American People, Social And Territorial
Sparks Edwin Erle
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One writer estimated that £300,000 worth of buttons was im- ported into tlie United States annually. Tench Coxe* 1 From "Life and Letters of Manasseh Cutler." Two stanzas of a manuscript poem in the Lenox Library, New York, run : Ladies can you in Conscience say Your useless costly line Array, As Tossils, Topknots, flow'ry Stuffs, Jewels and Rings, and heaps of Buffs; Can you spend Months to curl your hair. And Years to fix the Clothes you wear? Can you spend all the Sabbath Mom, Your Dust and ...Ashes to adorn! 2 A Philadelphia economist in "A View of the United States." THE NATIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT 187 thought that the importation of " the finer kinds of coat, vest and sleeve buttons, buckles, brooches, breastpins, and other trinkets into this port (Philadel- phia) only is supposed to have amounted in a single year to ten thousand pounds sterling, which cost the wearers above 60,000 dollars." Some economists suggested a law prohibiting extravagance in dress or prescribing a compulsory national dress suitable to the climate.
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