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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... North and South . The great extent and capacities of Texas , as well as its distinct position and history , have in- duced the author to devote to it a separate volume . It has not been thought necessary to load the narrative with ...
... North had the power and the con- stitutional right to prevent it . Our interest in its results cannot of course be deemed impertinent by its most jealous partisan . Offering to the public a volume of recent observations in Texas , I do ...
... North were convinced that they are serv- ants and not gentlemen in disguise . We hope this Herbert affair will teach them prudence . " horses ; and as beads and vermilion have a value XVI A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND .
... North , but nowhere comparably with what is general at the South . Nowhere , in any broad agricultural district , does such waste appear to have taken place , without a present equivalent existing for it . Nowhere is the land , with ...
... North Carolina and Tennessee have sent several thousands more into the Free Territories than all the Free States have sent into Slave Ter- ritory . Maryland , with a total white population of 418,000 , has sent more than half as many ...