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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... seen no such evidences of waste as , in Texas , I have after ten years of slavery . And indications of the same kind I have observed , not isolated , but general , in every Slave State but two - which I have seen only in parts yet ...
... seen the South , knows its condition , and main- tains friendly communication with slaveholders . This indicates , in my opinion , the only way in which the peo- ple of the North can be tempted to use the control they already actually ...
... seen— but he was a Virginian . After this the road follows up the valley as far as Cumberland , coming upon new and wilder beauties at every bend of the stream . But a day in a railway car is , in the best surroundings , a tedious thing ...
... seen a view which is , in its way , unsurpassed , and , but a few minutes ' walk above it , is a wooded gorge , into which a road enters as into monstrous jaws , and , after sunset , the heart fairly quakes , spite of reason , to ...
... seen under cultivation . They are grown as on the Rhine , attached to small stakes three or four feet high , and some three by six feet apart . What a pity the more graceful Italian mode of swinging long vine - branches from tree to ...