. The Southern States. nd New Or-leans, dotting the Louisville and Nash-ville Railway? At all of these delect-able places the scenery is inebriating,fishing excellent, boating superb, thecompany refined and we had not a deeper, more serious 136 SOME ATTRACTIONS OF THE SOUTH. and tremendous element in our lives,compelling us to labor, to sacrifice, toconquer our animal natures, to atone,perchance, for delinquencies, in orderto reach meritoriously the endless lifebeyond, the only land of real happi-ness, how inspirationally a man mightpass his days in such regions! As it is,with a
. The Southern States. nd New Or-leans, dotting the Louisville and Nash-ville Railway? At all of these delect-able places the scenery is inebriating,fishing excellent, boating superb, thecompany refined and we had not a deeper, more serious 136 SOME ATTRACTIONS OF THE SOUTH. and tremendous element in our lives,compelling us to labor, to sacrifice, toconquer our animal natures, to atone,perchance, for delinquencies, in orderto reach meritoriously the endless lifebeyond, the only land of real happi-ness, how inspirationally a man mightpass his days in such regions! As it is,with all of our moral responsibilitiesalive to conscientious dutv, there is more genuine, honest, sincere oppor-tunity for such content and pleasureas the world affords at the Souththan in any other country, unless, in-deed, the settler there be afflicted withacute or chronic nostalgia and inca-pable of remedial , perhaps, the larger numberof human beings may be said toeither have freedom from this disease. SOME ATTRACTIONS OF THE SOUTH. 137 or at any rate, led by interest or self- men, like Quitman or Prentiss, orprotection, and then by acquired ties, many other distinguished and even shake it off actually, if not sentiment-ally. That grand discontent which, under historical characters, become moreSouthern than Southerners. There is, however, a natural, inex-
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