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Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of American Life, Vol. 2 of 3 And weather-beaten appearance, and their be ing apparently much exhausted, that they had travelled a long way. A slight inspection of their dress, and the hired waggon that had brought them and their effects from the banks of the Mississippi, where they had debarked from a at boat, manifested that one of their trials had been want of sufficient money to bring them comfortably over such a long way, by such a tedious and expensive route. There was a shiness about them, too, which marked, however they disguised it externally, that their hearts revolted from the outlandish and foreign aspect of the tall planters, dressed in deer-skin hunting-shirts, with fringed epaulets of leather on their shoulders, a knit sash, of red, green, and blue, about their waists, buck skin pantaloons and moccasins, a ri e on their shoulders, five or six dogs attending each of them, and a dozen ragged and listless negroes lounging behind them. Real dignity, however, is an internal thing, and belongs only to the mind. A family could not have been reared, as they had been, Where self - re spect had been inculcated every day and every hour, both by precept and example, without showing the in uence of this discipline, be their dress and appearance in other respects as they might. There was a look of decency. 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."