This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...See nature's richest plains to putrid fens Turned by thy fury. From their cheerful bounds See razed th1 enlivening village, farm, and eeat." Thompson. The disastrous influence of slavery upon industrial pursuits, and its destructive effects upon the prosperity of communities, as, well as of individuals, are seen in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...See nature's richest plains to putrid fens Turned by thy fury. From their cheerful bounds See razed th1 enlivening village, farm, and eeat." Thompson. The disastrous influence of slavery upon industrial pursuits, and its destructive effects upon the prosperity of communities, as, well as of individuals, are seen in the South in every department of life, and among all classes of society. They are therefore incidentally traced hi all the chapters of this narrative. But my object in this chapter is to group together some facts illustrating this truth more particularly, and exhibiting it in a stronger light. All progress and all retrocession are perhaps relative, rather than absolute, and can best be shown by comparison or contrast. But if I indulge in this, my pictures may be colored, or at least some may suppose them to be, by my predilections for the North. I will, therefore, put into a frame of my own, --surrounding them with occasional views taken by myself during my various excursions, --some pencilings drawn by the slaveholders themselves. They, certainly, will not bo accused of prejudice against the South. And I will first copy from a speech of Hon. W. C. Preston, of South Carolina, as reported in the Columbia Telescope. At the time of its delivery he had represented that State in the U. S. Senate for nearly six years, and he continued a member of that body for more than six years afterwards. But not more on account of his high position in the South, than of his power of graphic and life-like delineation, are his remarks worthy of our careful attention. "No Southern man can journey, --as I have lately done, --through the Northern States, and witness the prosperity, the industry, the public spirit which they exhibit--the sedulous cultivation of all ...
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