but a small part of this payment. The residue is promised me in
July next. Thus you see my RECOMPENSE OF REWARD is as the land of
Canaan was to the Jews, resting a long while in promise. If the
Nations with whom I have to contend are not as numerous as those
opposed to the Israelites, they are certainly much greater
HEATHENS, having their hearts hardened and their understanding
blinded, to make, propagate and believe all manner of lies.
Verily, Stebbins, I have had much vexation of spirit in this
business. I shall spend forty thousand dollars to obtain thirty,
and it will all end in vanity at last. A contract had been made
with the State of Tennessee which now hangs SUSPENDED. Two
attempts have been made to induce the State of No. Carolina to
RECIND their CONTRACT, neither of which have succeeded. Thus you
see Brother Steb. Sovreign and Independent States warped by
INTEREST will be ROGUES and misled by Demagogues will be FOOLS.
They have spent much time, MONEY and CREDIT, to avoid giving me a
small compensation, for that which to them is worth millions."


Meanwhile North Carolina had agreed to buy the rights for the
State on terms that yielded Whitney about thirty thousand
dollars, and it is estimated that he received about ten thousand
dollars from Tennessee, making his receipts in all about ninety
thousand dollars, before deducting costs of litigation and other
losses. The cotton gin was not profitable to its inventor. And
yet no invention in history ever so suddenly transformed an
industry and created enormous wealth. Eight years before
Whitney's invention, eight bales of cotton, landed at Liverpool,
were seized on the ground that so large a quantity of cotton
could not have been produced in the United States. The year