Early western travels, 1748-1846, v. 10

Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods's Two Years' Residence, 1820-21

Two of the following letters have before appeared in a respectable periodical publication, in which the editor has impartially inserted the communications of writers of different opinions, on the subject of emigration;56 but as they may be said to be a continuation of former letters, and connected with those now for the first time published, I have thought proper to insert them. Readers who are desirous of forming just opinions on this subject, are requested to bear in remembrance the 116 precise stations described in the following pages. However unworthy or base may have been the motives of certain writers, who have grossly calumniated the English Settlement, there are others, {iv} to whom it would be uncandid to impute such motives, but who are chargeable with misrepresentation, which appears to have arisen from their not having considered that the spots they are describing are not those described by others; and that, of course, it is not fair to charge others with statements they have never made. I have publications before me in which Mr. Birkbeck and my brother are charged with unfairness in their statements, because they do not apply to the situations the writers had chosen, one of which was fifty, and the other four hundred miles from the English Settlement. There are at the Illinois as in almost all other countries, situations pleasant and unpleasant, healthy and unhealthy, and that emigrant does not act a very wise part, who fixes on a station unless he had carefully examined it himself, or at least had the recommendation of some intelligent friend who would scorn to mislead him. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 48119
Author: Flower, Richard
Release Date: Jan 31, 2015
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Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Hulme, Thomas, Woods, John, -1829
Editor: Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913