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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... and ample crops for sustenance harvested . Each has found communication with his market interrupted during a portion of the year by floods ; each needs an ampler and better house ; each desires viii A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND .
... better wages than carpenters can get in the older settlements ; and a young man , whose only capital is in his hands and his wits , glad to come where there is a glut of food and a dearth of labor , soon presents himself . To construct ...
... better em- Floyment of his neighbors , and the influence of the church and school upon them , will go far towards paying these debts . The difficulty of obtaining a profitable return for labor , Y A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND .
... better method of agriculture , remains in ignorance of it , or locked against it by the prejudice of custom and habit . I have described to you the real condition , and its historical rationale , of a majority of the better class of ...
... better possibilities , are so open and inviting to all . But it appears that such a class is a necessary phenomenon attending slavery . The planter in Eastern Texas speaks with the same irritation of his poorer neighbors that he does ...