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Excerpt from Random Shots and Southern Breezes, Containing Critical Remarks on the Southern States, and Southern Institutions, Vol. 1 of 2: With Semi-Serious Observations on Men and Manners
IN giving to the world these desultory sketches of Southern life and Southern institutions, it has been my object throughout to exhibit Truth dressed in her native beauty, and to expose the false de'esse whenever any attempt has been made to set her off in attractive colours. A single glance at the table of contents, however, will convince the reader that delineation of character and the exhibition of man ners have not been my only object. It appeared to me, that it might be advantageous to connect oc casional criticisms on art and literature with some researches calculated to win a smile of approbation even from those of a purely scholastic or scientific turn of mind. The meteors that constantly danced before me during my travels have naturally led me on both rapidly and irregularly. Still, I am not without hope that these very digressions from the beaten course of narrative, and the erratic nature of the work altogether, may prove its chief recommend ation and most lasting attraction. That these vol umes might be conducive, not only to the amuse ment, but to the instruction of my readers, has been my great ambition; that I have not succeeded to the full extent of my wishes to keep myself out of sight, is to me a matter of extreme regret. The novelty of the plan of my work would have render ed any other course impracticable.
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