Excerpt from Gleanings From a Gathered Harvest It has been frequently asked, What is the cause of the increase of pauperism in our cities? How is it that our poor houses are not only crowded with age and decay, but even with youthful mendicity? How is it that so many young persons become inmates. 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.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... A LARGE proportion of the people of the North, including many Democrats whose hearts were better than their heads, always manifested sympathy in behalf of the Southern bondsmen, and as soon as the war opened the way, they were ready to act the part of the Good Samaritan, reaching a helping hand to the millions of freed people, men, women, and children, who were cast out from their old homes without any place whereon to set their feet but the high-road, where they were liable to be taken up as vagrants, and no shelter but the sky. They were fed and clothed, and their spiritual needs ministered unto. Agents were sent out, who, following in the wake of our victorious armies, "set up a school-house behind every cannon," until the entire South was studded with school-houses under the auspices of Northern benevolent societies and churches. As soon as law unloosed its iron clutch from the victim race, and they came forth from the yoke of bondage, beneath the weight of which they had been crushed for centuries, a perfect blaze of enthusiasm for their elevation was kindled in society meetings and vestry gatherings which continued unabated until thousands had been put in a fair way to "help themselves," and scores upon scores so far initiated into the mystic signs of the alphabet as to be fitted to teach the rudiments of an English education to those among their people who had been less favored than themselves. During the early years of this missionary work, when the interest in it was so widespread and universal, the Freedmen's teachers were everywhere met with two questions with a persistency and eagerness reminding one of those propounded to the sphinx. "Can negroes learn?" and "Does the prejudice of Southerners decrease in consequence of your...

Excerpt from Wayside Gleanings in Europe As the gleaner, at the close of the day, carefully as sorts every head of Wheat gathered, and binds the golden grain into sheaves, so was I in the habit of assorting and storing away the fruits of each day at its close. In secluded mountain retreats, in village inns, and in the more noisy quarters of the crowded city, I thrashed the harvest and garnered it in articles for the columns and pages of different periodicals. Thus it happened that the greater part of this volume was written at or near the places to which reference is made. The impressions of men and manners, of things seen, heard and felt, were noted down when yet fresh and vivid in the mind. 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.