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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... facts presented are suf- fered to speak for themselves , some of the more obvious conclusions to which their examination leads have been thrown into the form of a letter , for the reader's consideration . Owing to the pressure of other ...
... facts placed in his hands , and in doing this he has drawn frankly upon memory for his own sensations . The lapse of two years may have breathed a little dullness on the pictures thus recalled , but it has served , also , to cool and ...
... 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 . Many of the comforts demanded by people in a moderate state ...
... fact that , in the eastern counties , that spectacle so familiar and so melancholy in your own State , in all the older Slave States , is already not unfrequently seen by the traveler - an abandoned plantation of " worn - out " fields ...
... facts men- tioned in these pages which bear on both these points , and to which I will simply beg you to give a fair consideration . Espe- cially , I would be glad to have you ponder the experience of the German colonists , of which ...