The merchants were not fighting men.
There now, the gentry and merchants have gone away and left us to perish.
All access to the gorge was free, funded by the generosity of private contributors, merchants and the equipment manufactures.
The Code recognizes complete private ownership in land, but apparently extends the right to hold land to votaries, merchants (and resident aliens?).
The political and the commercial proposals were alike received with coldness, because the native diplomatists had aims which could not be reconciled completely with the policy of any other country, and the native merchants were afraid of foreign competition.