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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... labor is the principal investment , imparts to observations within these new limits a peculiar interest . In an appendix will be found condensed tables of such statistics as are most useful for reference . A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND ...
... labor ( or capital , which represents labor ) to establish such con- veniences . For the same reason , the usual means of civilized education , both for young and for mature minds , will be procured with diffi- culty in the early days ...
... labor , soon presents himself . To construct a causeway and a bridge , and to clear , fence , and break up the land he desires to bring into cultivation , the Texan will need three more slaves - and he gets them as before , thereby ...
... labor- ers their wages . It is unnecessary that I should do so : those wages remain as capital to be used again for the benefit of the community in Iowa . Besides , the additional profit which has accrued to the farmer by reason of the ...
... labor , ap- plied with the disadvantages which thus result from slavery , is such that all but the simplest , nearest , and quickest promises of profit are neglected in its direction . As a general , almost univer- sal , rule , the ...