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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... field of discussion , affect to be indifferent , or avoid a respectful expression of his own judg- ment upon the grave issues in debate . For instance , the exten- sion of slavery into Texas , commenced , for good or evil , in our own ...
... field - hands . He plants cotton largely quite all that his laborers can cul- tivate properly . Generally , a certain force will cultivate more than it can pick , pack , and transport to public conveyance . Unwilling to lose the ...
... fields , with its little village of dwellings , now a home only for wolves and vultures ? This but indicates a large class of observations , * by which I hold myself justified in asserting that the natural elements of wealth in the soil ...
... field of improvidence are unjust , cruel , and oppressive . Revolutionary resistance to them by all men whose interest it is to have industry honestly paid , can only be wrong while likely to be unsuccessful . There are two reasons ...
... field of labor . Governor Adams , in the message to which I have referred , alleges that the poverty and weakness of the South are chiefly due to its deficiency of laborers . To say that it has too few laborers is to say that it has too ...