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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... things . He confines the imports of his plantation almost entirely to 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 ...
... things considered , I believe that the prosperity of Texas , measured by the rapidity with which the inconveniences and dis- comforts , inevitable only in a wilderness or an uncivilized state of society , are removed , would have been ...
... thing , desirable for indefinite perpetuation and extension , from exercising the influence they endeavor to do , in our common government , for the purpose of extending and perpetuating it . I suppose about one - half of all the people ...
... thing else that you may place in the alternative . Be it disunion , be it war , foreign or domestic , it will not divert them from their purpose . Any further extension or annexation of slavery , under whatever While the interest of the ...
... car is , in the best surroundings , a tedious thing , and it is with great pleasure that the traveler , in the early evening , shakes the dust from his back , and partakes of a quietly - prolonged supper 2 TEXAS . A JOURNEY THROUGH.