Excerpt from Colonel Dunwoddie, Millionaire: A Story of to-Day Having married his only daughter to his satisfaction, the General died, leaving his plantation and a few dozen negroes to his two children, Eliza and her idle brother, Alexander. Then came secession. The young husband did not believe in such a remedy for acknowledged wrongs at all. He made powerful speeches against it: one in the brick court-house in Clairs ville, Where he lived, Wherein he reached a pitch of eloquence which inspired him with the first hope he ever had that he really possessed genius. AS to poetry, you can not open any decent collection of the best authors which does not have at least one Or two of his most stirring lyrics written at that date, he had so put his very soul into them. 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.