. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. eable,the churches in peace, the surrounding countrypleasant to the eye, and the soil amply repays INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 87 cultivation. If I were a farmer, seeking a home ina new country, I should feel strongly drawn towardthis section of Arkansas. In my judgment, thisState is greatly underrated in the East. The peo-ple, I grant, need rousing up to a proper apprecia-tion of their advantages. They lack enterprise,public spirit. But there are the elements andresources of a great State. A dense and flour-ishing p
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. eable,the churches in peace, the surrounding countrypleasant to the eye, and the soil amply repays INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 87 cultivation. If I were a farmer, seeking a home ina new country, I should feel strongly drawn towardthis section of Arkansas. In my judgment, thisState is greatly underrated in the East. The peo-ple, I grant, need rousing up to a proper apprecia-tion of their advantages. They lack enterprise,public spirit. But there are the elements andresources of a great State. A dense and flour-ishing population might congregate within herborders, and when her lands are occupied, and herleading men in Church and State do their duty inenlightening and directing the people, her citizensneed never to be ashamed, when they travelabroad, to tell where they come from. As com-pared with her sisters in the Confederacy, I pre-dict for Arkansas a glorious development and abrilliant future. The raw material abounds: letthe spinners and weavers go to work and vindicatethe 88 INCIDENTS 0E WESTERN TRAVEL. LETTEB X. CAMDEN A COLLEGE SPEECH — OFF TO TEXAS—SIGNS FOR SELECTING A LODGING A CLEAN HOUSE—FEATHER-BEDS HEROIC FEAT THE WILDERNESS MINDEN, LA.—CROSS-ROADS. On coming through Camden, I had promised, ifthe Conference adjourned in time to allow it, toreturn and make a speech in behalf of a femalecollege to be located at that place. Accordingly,after the closing services on Monday, I made hasteto dine and to take backward steps for forty miles,to serve what I regard an important Church in-terest. Brother Bustin, an old Georgia man, had boundme by f promise to stay at his house on Mondaynight, and to preach at the church near by. I wasweary with business and labor, and needed anights repose for the refreshment of mind andbody. But the people seemed anxious to hear theword, and, despite fatigue, I mounted a horse androde to the church, and found, in the effort topreach, a s
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