Cattle Quotes
Ex-President Calvin Coolidge was giving advice to Herbert Hoover. Hoover's rejoinder was: No, but I do expect to see contented cows.
Some opponents of genetic engineering and Xenotransplantation (creating new animals by combining parts of different animals or adding parts of one animal species to another) cite this Biblical passage in their efforts to stop these new technologies. Yet both are well established and most people, including the opponents often do not even realize instances of it. For example, a large proportion of heart valve repairs in humans is accomplished by Xenotransplantation—replacing the defective heart valve with a pig heart valve. An entire line of biological research is being conducted by splicing the genes of a jellyfish that glows green under UV light into monkeys and worms to study the methods of genetic transmission.
Thomas Jefferson wrote a very similar idea over 50 years before Darwin did. See Quotation 643685.
Slaves could not own property in most of Southern America. The Greeks, the Romans, the ancient Germans, the Poles, the Portuguese, the Spanish and the French had provided, both by law and by custom, for the possession of property by the slave, which could, not be seized by his master. This is another sense in which American slavery was even worse than most slavery had been.
At the time, the Chamber of Commerce represented the small and medium business which were being decimated by the large businesses and their monopolies. A century later, the Chamber became a creature of the large business and their money and by 2010, the Chamber had virtually become the representative of the large businesses outside of the high technology field and had become a campaigning arm of the Republican Party, In 1880 however, they called public attention to the abuses of the large corporate monopolies.
It was common for the Navaho to steal cattle and other livestock from neighboring lands—Mexico, Mormon Territory and the land of other Indians such as the Utes. Barboncito had committed himself to try and stop the stealing and himself stood guard at one of the border crossing points.
During the Civil War the government had issued paper money and made it legal tender for the payment of all debts. A legal and commercial furor erupted. It was argued that the government was, in effect, taking citizens' valuable property, and only giving them worthless paper in exchange:
