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.