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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... person , therefore , claiming for himself a respect- able and responsible position in society , can , with decency , it seems to me , when brought near the field of discussion , affect to be indifferent , or avoid a respectful ...
... persons who have resided both in Iowa and in Texas , and have ascertained , most distinctly , that the rapidity with which the discomforts of the frontier are overcome , the facility with which the most valua- ble conveniences , and the ...
... suffer , and which , without doubt , greatly deters indus trious and peacefully disposed persons from immigrating among them ? forbid freedom of discussion , and freedom of election ; A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND . xix.
... 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 reason given ...
... persons in the South , for years , to represent the people of the North as disposed to in- terfere with them in their own exclusive and peculiar concerns . This is a deli cate and sensitive point in Southern feeling ; and of late years ...