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Title: A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States -- Description and travel United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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culiar appearance. Green tufts of the mis-tletoe grew upon the leafless tree-tops. Clouds of blackbirdssometimes covered the shore, casting a shadow as they flew.The second day, the low shores disappeared, replaced bypleasantly wooded bluffs and elevated plantations. Nearly all the planters I met had been down to Mobile topurchase their supplies for the season. Freight went ashoreat every landing. Recent rains had made the steep clayeybanks as slippery as if they had been greased ; and it wasquite exciting to see the deck-hands carry up the freight, —many a poor fellow getting a perilous fall. The wood forthe steamboat was sometimes shot from the summit of thebluff down a long wooden spout which dropped it at thelanding. Seeing some heavy bars of iron going ashore at one place,I asked an old gentleman to what use they were put on theplantation. They are to make ploughs of, sir. Does every plantation make its own ploughs ? Do we make our own ploughs ? he repeated, regarding28 CoJ-qVU
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m?c ^ ^A-22 t j- ?o MTles. ,1 .. 1- to I .».- o SELMA. —CHAIN-GANG. 435 me with astonishment and indignation. Why, sir, It would ntbe a civihzed country, if we did nt. How do you think, sir,we should get our ploughs ? Buy them, or have them made for you. Buy our ploughs ! It would impoverish us, sir, if we hadto buy our ploughs. On the contrary, I should think a plough-factory couldfurnish them for less than they now cost you, — that, likeboots and shoes, it would be cheaper to buy them than tomake them. No, sir! I ve a black man on my plantation who canmake as good a plough, at as little cost, as can be made any-where In the world. After that I had nothing to say, having already sufficientlyexposed my Ignorance. On the third day (It was the slowest trip, our captain said,which he had made in twenty years) we reached Selma, threehundred miles above Mobile, — a pleasantly situated town,looking down from the level summit of a bluff that risesalmost precipitously from the river. B

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