Excerpt from My Beloved South Wandering minstrel I, a thing of shreds and patches. My book is but a reflection of myself; its sole recommendation, - that my bale of cotton grew under warm sunshine, and every thread spun and woven into material is from the old and new South. I have gathered me a posy of other men's thoughts, only the thread that holds them together is mine. Some of the stories have even been told before, but they belong to me by right of inheritance and Love, so may I not tell them again? After many ...
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Excerpt from My Beloved South Wandering minstrel I, a thing of shreds and patches. My book is but a reflection of myself; its sole recommendation, - that my bale of cotton grew under warm sunshine, and every thread spun and woven into material is from the old and new South. I have gathered me a posy of other men's thoughts, only the thread that holds them together is mine. Some of the stories have even been told before, but they belong to me by right of inheritance and Love, so may I not tell them again? After many years of absence, when the riches and abundance of my country were displayed to me, it was my ambition to write an informing, practical, statistical book. Such a one as would induce English settlers to set sail for the Southern States. There, English tradi tion, an ever-green, would extend a fraternal welcome, and with a small capital, or even none at all, except health and strong hands, a Home awaits them. But my frank friends discouraged this undertaking. There are so many writers, they said, who know more of the progress, resources, and wealth of the country than you possibly can know. The most you can hope to do, is to make an entertaining South. 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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