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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... remain in association with the North , unless she can retain such an equality . There can be no dishonor for 1,100,000 citizens ( the number voting in the Slave States at the recent election ) to have less power of control in the ...
... the people of the Free States . I am , and I trust long to remain , Your fellow - citizen , and friend , FRED . LAW OLMSTED . INDEX . CHAPTER I. ROUTE TO TEXAS . Southern Phenomena A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND . xxix.
... Remains ; The Progress of Dilapidation , 63 ; Our Old Frontier The First House in Texas , 64 ; Slave Life , 66 ; The Red - land District , 67 ; San Augustine ; A Texan Fête , 68 ; Manners , 69 ; Packing the Mule , 70 ; Additions to the ...
... remains to do . Near the mouth of the Ohio , this is still more striking , and on the Mississippi the impression is absolutely painful , so rich yet so entirely desolate and unused is the whole vast region . There is soil enough here ...
... remain still very vividly in my ears in thinking of this sail - the unceasing " Choosh , choosh ; choosh , choosh , " of the steam , driven out into the air , after doing its work ; and the " shove her up ! shove her up ! " of the ...