{"product_id":"2940013391970","title":"THE REIGN OF LAW","description":"HEMP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold,\u003cbr\u003efreehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of\u003cbr\u003ehemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral\u003cbr\u003eBritain. Away back in the days when they lived with wife, child, flock\u003cbr\u003ein frontier wooden fortresses and hardly ventured forth for water,\u003cbr\u003esalt, game, tillage--in the very summer of that wild daylight ride of\u003cbr\u003eTomlinson and Bell, by comparison with which, my children, the midnight\u003cbr\u003eride of Paul Revere, was as tame as the pitching of a rocking-horse in\u003cbr\u003ea boy's nursery--on that history-making twelfth of August, of the year\u003cbr\u003e1782, when these two backwoods riflemen, during that same Revolution\u003cbr\u003ethe Kentuckians then fighting a branch of that same British army,\u003cbr\u003erushed out of Bryan's Station for the rousing of the settlements and\u003cbr\u003ethe saving of the West--hemp was growing tall and thick near the walls\u003cbr\u003eof the fort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHemp in Kentucky in 1782--early landmark in the history of the soil, of\u003cbr\u003ethe people. Cultivated first for the needs of cabin and clearing\u003cbr\u003esolely; for twine and rope, towel and table, sheet and shirt. By and by\u003cbr\u003enot for cabin and clearing only; not for tow-homespun, fur-clad\u003cbr\u003eKentucky alone. To the north had begun the building of ships, American\u003cbr\u003eships for American commerce, for American arms, for a nation which\u003cbr\u003eNature had herself created and had distinguished as a sea-faring race.\u003cbr\u003eTo the south had begun the raising of cotton. As the great period of\u003cbr\u003eshipbuilding went on--greatest during the twenty years or more ending\u003cbr\u003ein 1860; as the great period of cotton-raising and cotton-baling went\u003cbr\u003eon--never so great before as that in that same year--the two parts of\u003cbr\u003ethe nation looked equally to the one border plateau lying between them,\u003cbr\u003eto several counties of Kentucky, for most of the nation's hemp. It was\u003cbr\u003ein those days of the North that the CONSTITUTION was rigged with\u003cbr\u003eRussian hemp on one side, with American hemp on the other, for a\u003cbr\u003epatriotic test of the superiority of home-grown, home-prepared fibre;\u003cbr\u003eand thanks to the latter, before those days ended with the outbreak of\u003cbr\u003ethe Civil War, the country had become second to Great Britain alone in\u003cbr\u003eher ocean craft, and but little behind that mistress of the seas. So\u003cbr\u003ethat in response to this double demand for hemp on the American ship\u003cbr\u003eand hemp on the southern plantation, at the close of that period of\u003cbr\u003enational history on land and sea, from those few counties of Kentucky,\u003cbr\u003ein the year 1859, were taken well-nigh forty thousand tons of the\u003cbr\u003ewell-cleaned bast.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082611114224,"sku":"2940013391970","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013391970_p0.jpg?v=1763580648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013391970","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}