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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... carried slavery into Texas , as well as by those who have sought to establish it in Kansas . These missionaries of the institution voluntarily make the declaration , and put it de- liberately on record , that lawless violence and ...
... carried slaves to Kansas have not done so because they believe it to be the most promising field of labor for slaves open to them ; they do not hesitate to admit it to be otherwise . But they have gone there as a chivalric duty to their ...
... carry us ? You are unsafe now : if safety is to be obtained by greater dispersion , how great must it be ? In another generation you will require the continent , and the tide of white immigration will be returning to the old world ...
... carrying it where it is not , and their verdict is against you . * I believe that , rather than be parties to its extension ... carried to Texas . pretense or covering it is attempted , will only be XXviii A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND .
... carry on their usual relations at all stages of water . Then extends backward , on a gently - rising plateau , a square mile or two of brick blocks and hubbub . Then rise steeply the hills by which , in semicircle , the city is backed ...