The Carpet-bagger in Tennessee

"Who and what I am?Unsatisfactory condition of things on my return from the South?The first Carpet-baggers?Contrabands?Prudence in the family?Committee system.My father, General George Washington Bascom, was one of the pioneers of this noble State. When he died he left me, his youngest son, one fine plantation with seventy niggers in Mississippi, and five large farms with one hundred and thirty niggers in Tennessee. I married into the family of Col. John (...)"

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