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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... 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 investing ...
... soon in operation , and with them is brought rapidly into play other social machinery , which makes much luxury common and cheap to all . The Texan , if solicited to assist in similar enterprises , answers truly , that cotton is yet too ...
... soon to form a judgment of any value upon the prosperity of Texas , as measured by the other criterion I proposed - namely , " the completeness with which the opportu- nity for profitable labor is retained . " But what do you say to the ...
... soon be ex- hausted if the institution were really uneconomical ; in a new country the opportunity of employing slaves would soon be lost , owing to the superior advantages those would have who em- ployed the cheaper labor of freemen ...
... soon added to the strength of slavery in the government . They are only wrong in forgetting that free laborers are no longer constrained , by a compact with them , to quietly permit this curse to be established in Kansas . Danger from ...