A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... German colonists , of which , though the narration is influenced , perhaps , by an irresistible enthusiasm of admiration , the details have been carefully obtained and verified . As to the needlessness of legal restrictions upon slavery ...
... Germans ; His Report of them , 138 ; German Farms , 140 ; Free - labor Cotton ; A Free - minded Butcher , 141 ; Neu - Braunfels , 142 ; An Evening far from Texas , 143 ; Pleas- ing Indications of a New Social Life , 146 ; The San ...
... German , and Mexican Settlers , 235 ; Wine , 236 ; Gonzales ; Wa- terless Camp , 237 ; Broader Views ; How Corn is Kept ; Cotton - hauling ; The Roads , 238 ; The Courtesy of the Road ; Dead Cattle , 239 ; Slave Emi- grants ; Cool ...
... Germans and Runaways , 327 ; Jews ; A Mail Behind Time , 329 ; Plans of Slaveholders , 331 ; Peon Law , 334 ; Rules of ... German Farmers in Eastern Texas ; Northern Settlers , 358 ; Free and Slave Labor together , 359 ; Capa- city of ...
... Germans , 428 ; Competition and Collision of Free and Slave Labor ; Political Divisions among the Germans , 433 ; History of an Attempt to Maintain a Free News- paper , 434 ; " Americanism " in Texas , 436 ; Method of Persecution , 437 ...