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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... never paying its debts . Look at any part of the United States where slavery has pre- dominated for a historic period ; compare its present aspect with that it bore when peopled only by " heathen salvages , ” and you * It might be ...
... never the slightest suggestion of a desire to interfere by force , or any action of the central government , with the constitutional rights of the state governments to maintain slavery . Since the attempt to extend slavery in Kansas ...
... never mind me . " Near another we passed a husking bee - a circle of neighbors , tossing rapidly bright ears of corn into a central heap , with jokes and good cheer ; near by , a group of idle boys looking on from a fence , and half - a ...
... never carry a slave on his boat , and ordered the whole gang , their master , and his baggage , to be hustled out upon the levee . It was no sooner said than done , to the great astonishment of the bystanders , who , however , were awed ...
... never heard to give utterance to a complaint or vent to an oath . He traveled with us some two thousand rough miles , kept well up , in spite of the brevity of his legs , with the rest , never winced at any load we had the heart to put ...