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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... slavery - extension . The re- cent Presidential election decided nothing with respect to this , as you seem to suppose , because the vital question which really divides the country was not presented in its integrity by the party which ...
... slaves - and he gets them as before , thereby investing all his money . The Iowan has only to let his demand be known , or , at most , to advance a small sum to the public conveyances , and all the laborers he requires -independent ...
... slaves , corn , ba- con , salt , sugar , molasses , tobacco , clothing , medicine , hoes and plow - iron . Even if he had the same capital to spare , he would live in far less comfort than the Iowan , because of the want of local shops ...
... slave force . Thus the temptation con- stantly recurs , and constantly the labor is directed to the quickest and surest way of sustaining credit for more slaves . After a certain period , as his capital in slaves increases , and his ...
... slaves are accustomed . This occurs , I again remind you , not merely because labor is applied to the end of immediately realizing a return in slaves , but because it continues constantly to be applied without the advantage of efficient ...