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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... half as many persons into the Free Territories as all the Free States together , with a total white population of 13,300,000 , have sent into the Slave Territories See Putnam's Monthly , December , 1856 , p . 652 . But this is not the ...
... half your house - servants , or may have been given to any slave who purchases a plug of tobacco at a gro- cery . This message , or almost any of the speeches made by Southern members in the debate upon it , which have , in like manner ...
... half of all the people of the Free States are now distinctly and intelligently abolitionists , of this kind , and nine - tenths of the remaining number are as yet simply too little interested in the subject to have formed a judgment ...
... half ; at the mines , unselected , half a dollar — a difference which , for my own part , I gladly pay . Unattractive as is the town of Cumberland , it is not easily forgotten , from its romantic position . From the cultivated hills ...
... half bottled during the year . It will not be many years , I hope , before the famous hog crop will be of less value to this region in compari- son . Let us pray for the day when honest wine and oil shall take the place of our barbarous ...