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       Charles Dudley Warner

      Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066152970

       PREFATORY NOTE.

       To Henry M. Alden, Esq., Editor of Harper’s Monthly

       C. D. W,

       STUDIES IN THE SOUTH AND WEST

       I.—IMPRESSIONS OF THE SOUTH IN 1885.

       II.—SOCIETY IN THE NEW SOUTH.

       III.—NEW ORLEANS.

       IV.—A VOUDOO DANCE.

       V.—THE ACADIAN LAND.

       VI.—THE SOUTH REVISITED, IN 1887.

       VII.—A FAR AND FAIR COUNTRY.

       VIII.—ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TOPICS. MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN.

       IX.—CHICAGO. [ First Paper .]

       X.—CHICAGO [ Second Paper .]

       XI.—THREE CAPITALS—SPRINGFIELD, INDIANAPOLIS, COLUMBUS.

       XII.—CINCINNATI AND LOUISVILLE.

       XIII.—MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK.

       XIV.—ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY.

       XV.—KENTUCKY.

       COMMENTS ON CANADA.

       I.

       II.

       III.

       THE END.

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      My dear Mr. Alden—It was at your suggestion that these Studies were undertaken; all of them passed under your eye, except “Society in the New South,” which appeared in the New Princeton Review. The object was not to present a comprehensive account of the country South and West—which would have been impossible in the time and space given—but to note certain representative developments, tendencies, and dispositions, the communication of which would lead to a better understanding between different sections. The subjects chosen embrace by no means all that is important and interesting, but it is believed that they are fairly representative. The strongest impression produced upon the writer in making these Studies was that the prosperous life of the Union depends upon the life and dignity of the individual States.

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      It is borne in upon me, as the Friends would say, that I ought to bear my testimony of certain impressions made by a recent visit to the Gulf States. In doing this I am aware that I shall be under the suspicion of having received kindness and hospitality, and of forming opinions upon a brief sojourn. Both these facts must be confessed, and allowed their due weight in discrediting what I have to say. A month of my short visit was given to New Orleans in the spring, during the Exposition, and these impressions are mainly of Louisiana.

      The first general impression made was that the war is over in spirit as well as in deed. The thoughts of the people are not upon the war, not much upon the past at all, except as their losses remind them of it, but upon the future, upon business, a revival of trade, upon education, and adjustment to the new state of things. The thoughts are not much upon politics either, or upon offices; certainly they are not turned more in this direction than the thoughts of people at the North are. When we read a despatch which declares that there is immense dissatisfaction throughout Arkansas because offices are not dealt out more liberally to it, we may know that the case is exactly what it is in,

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