Hunting Big Redwoods.
I. j 304 Hunting Big Bedwoods. may be set down to the not yet closed account of reconstruction. This, too, was a crime which in old times was not known in the South. Among the better signs is the increasing feeling that it is best, on the whole, to leave every section to work out its own problems. M...
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| Summary: | I. j 304 Hunting Big Bedwoods. may be set down to the not yet closed account of reconstruction. This, too, was a crime which in old times was not known in the South. Among the better signs is the increasing feeling that it is best, on the whole, to leave every section to work out its own problems. Many years ago Mr. Seward said of the negro race: " They will find their place they must take their level. The laws of political economy will determine their position and the relation of the two races. Congress cannot contravene those." Congress attempted to contravene them; but though for a brief period it appeared to have succeeded, the lapse of time has shown its failure. It might as well have attempted to contravene the law of gravitation. That intelligence, virtue, and force of character will eventually rule is as certain in the states of the South as it is elsewhere and everywhere it is as certain as the operation of the law of gravitation. Whatever people wish to rule in those states must possess these qualities. Thomas Nelson Page. HUNTING BIG REDWOODS. -~ * The Big Tree (Sequoia gigantea) is nature's forest masterpiece, and, as far as I know, the greatest of living things. It belongs to an ancient stock, as its remains in old rocks show, and has a strange air of other days about it, a thoroughbred look inherited from the long ago, the auld lang syne of trees. Once the genus was common, and with many spjecies flourished in the now desolate Arctic regions, the interior of North America, and in Europe but in long eventful wanderings from climate to climate only two species have survived the hardships they had to encounter, the gigantea and senvpervi- rens : the former now restricted to the western slopes of the Sierra, the other to the Coast Mountains, and both to California, excepting a f ew groves of redwood which extend into Oregon. The Pacific coast in general is the paradise of conifers. Here nearly all of them are giants, and display a beauty and magnificence unknown elsewhere. The climate is mild, ... |
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