ISBN: 9781459099630

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. More than a generation ago, a common joke--. one of the commonest--represented that when an insolvent debtor, or a rough who had been engaged in an unpleasantness, or any other loafer who had changed his home, wished to leave warning behind him where he had gone, he chalked upon his door the letters G. T. T. These letters were in no sort mysterious. They meant and were understood to mean, Gone to Texas. Old enough to remember their use, when they were quite as intelligible as A.S.S. or LL.D., I have been amused and surprised to see that this generation does not know what they mean, and that a word of preface is needed to explain. I was so simple, and so far gone in years, that when I announced the title to this book I supposed all America would know,--all America would have known thirty years ago,--what these letters mean. I had no thought of a secret society or of other cabala. For myself I had an early interest in Texas. The first pamphlet I ever published--and that, I see, was a generation ago--was an appeal to New England men and women to emigrate to Texas. It was printed in the month of March, ''1845. I had heard at Washington, that winter, most of the great debates in which the annexation of Texas, and so much more of the later history of the country, were decided on. I returned to Massachusetts, convinced that the simplest solution of the southern question was in a vigorous and large emigration of northern men into that New Empire, to whose fortunes ours had been linked by the resolutions of annexation. And so I wrote and published the little pamphlet of which I speak, under the title How to conquer Texas before Texas conquers us. It was an eager appeal for emigration. At that time I should have been glad to join any colony which wo... Edward Everett Hale, Books, History, G.t.t.; Or, The Wonderful Adventures Of A Pullman Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Roberts Brothers in 1877 in 239 pages; Subjects: Children's stories; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; History / General; Juvenile Fiction / General;<

ISBN: 9781459099630

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. More than a generation ago, a common joke--. one of the commonest--represented that when an insolvent debtor, or a rough who had been engaged in an unpleasantness, or any other loafer who had changed his home, wished to leave warning behind him where he had gone, he chalked upon his door the letters G. T. T. These letters were in no sort mysterious. They meant and were understood to mean, Gone to Texas. Old enough to remember their use, when they were quite as intelligible as A.S.S. or LL.D., I have been amused and surprised to see that this generation does not know what they mean, and that a word of preface is needed to explain. I was so simple, and so far gone in years, that when I announced the title to this book I supposed all America would know,--all America would have known thirty years ago,--what these letters mean. I had no thought of a secret society or of other cabala. For myself I had an early interest in Texas. The first pamphlet I ever published--and that, I see, was a generation ago--was an appeal to New England men and women to emigrate to Texas. It was printed in the month of March, ''1845. I had heard at Washington, that winter, most of the great debates in which the annexation of Texas, and so much more of the later history of the country, were decided on. I returned to Massachusetts, convinced that the simplest solution of the southern question was in a vigorous and large emigration of northern men into that New Empire, to whose fortunes ours had been linked by the resolutions of annexation. And so I wrote and published the little pamphlet of which I speak, under the title How to conquer Texas before Texas conquers us. It was an eager appeal for emigration. At that time I should have been glad to join any colony which wo... Edward Everett Hale, Books, History, G.t.t.; Or, The Wonderful Adventures Of A Pullman Books>History, General Books LLC<