Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 17: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts; February, 1857 It was not our intention in writing those letters to convey any idea of lack of ability or energy in our people, or that our institutions do not foster all honest industry. On the con trary, none but men of unfaltering courage would have felled the forest and subdued the hard and unproductive lands which they have finally forsaken. The forest, there, was all that could remunerate man for his labor, and ...
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Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 17: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts; February, 1857 It was not our intention in writing those letters to convey any idea of lack of ability or energy in our people, or that our institutions do not foster all honest industry. On the con trary, none but men of unfaltering courage would have felled the forest and subdued the hard and unproductive lands which they have finally forsaken. The forest, there, was all that could remunerate man for his labor, and when that was exhausted, it would have been wise to allow it to grow up again and cover the nakedness of the land. But if the soil had been like that on the Potomac or J a'mes River, that deserted region would now be covered with productive farms and teeming with an industrious, intelligent and independent pepu lation. It was folly to battle with gravel banks, or with lands so thickly covered with boulders, as utterly to forbid the introduction of the plow. Cultivation was out of the ques tion. Where the lands were cleared, they were occupied as pasture, with here and there a limited area for the indispensable corn or potatoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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