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Excerpt from The Traveling Refugee; Or the Cause and Cure of the Rebellion in the United States: Embracing a Sketch of the State of Society in the South, Before, and at the Commencement of the Rebellion; Illustrated by Facts and Incidents
Questions, such as the following, will no doubt often be asked: Of what does your book treat? 'nhat gave rise to it, and What is the object of it? The title page furnishes a clue to the p1ope1 answer; to which I briefly add, that if I know my own heart the piime object has been to do my duty to God, myself and my fellow beings, and to promote the general welfare of my country, politically, morally and religiously: to advance the tempo ral, spiritual and eternal interests of the human family. The circumstances which have surrounded me where my lot has been cast, have circumscribed my Opportunities for usefulness, in this line, to very narrow limits, which has been a source of mortification of feeling and anxiety of mind. These things, i1r'-connection with other considera tions, led me to this work, with the h0pe that through this medium I might have access for good to the minds of many, whom otherwise I never could reach, and thus benefit some where my face can never be seen, nor my voice be heard; and that, too, when the footsteps of time, in its long march, Shall have so erased from earth the visible signs of its pres ent inhabitants that the resting places of most of their mor tal remains will be unknown to the living. 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.
