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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... 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 extended ...
... South in the production of cotton - a quality so valua- ble that Texans sell scarcely anything out of the State but cotton , which they even find it profitable to exchange for corn raised in Ohio , and taxed with the expense of a great ...
... South , and says , " If there are hog - thieves anywhere , it is here . " The existence of the classes , master and slave , implies the existence of a miserable intermediate class . will see that the luxury of slaves , and what A LETTER ...
... South Carolina , intimates that , at ten cents a pound , English manufacturers are paying too little for the cotton this country sends them . I think twice that amount would be too little to recompense the country for the loss of ...
... South - that South to which alone their patriotism acknowledges a duty . If they succeed in once estab- lishing slavery as a state institution , they have reason for think- ing that Kansas will be thereafter avoided , as a plague ...