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Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker
Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker Author:Jonathan Walker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRIAL AND IMPRISONMENT or JONATHAN WALKER. CHAPTER I. Having been arraigned before the public by providential circumstances of a somewhat unusual nat... more »ure, and having been the subject of much remark and ridicule; passing " through evil report and good report," throughout the United States, and having received tokens of sympathy from abroad in consequence of the treatment I received from the tribunals of my own country for an attempted act of kindness towards some of the down-trodden of my own countrymen ; and confident that but a scanty and imperfect knowledge of the case has found its way to the people, who have a right to know the real facts; it appears to be a matter of duty to them and the cause for which I have suffered, that I should relate the substance of the whole transaction as it actually occurred. This I have endeavored to do with much carefulness in avoiding all false coloring or deviation from the simple truth. Having never been favored with an education, and laboring under the disadvantage of writing hastily, on my passage home, as I found opportunity, the narrative will not be so attractive as it otherwise might be. But such readers as desire a simple ungarnished statement of the case, will, I hope, find their minds led by it to a subject of the first consideration to every American citizen. I look upon the southern States as the most favored part of my country, which nature seems to have done and to be doing much more for, than for the northern States. Their soft and genial climate, their rich and luxuriant soil, their long and uniform summers, their short and mild winters, their beautiful timber forests and great water-privileges, all far exceed those of New England, in my opinion; and I am fully under the impression that I could support my family...« less