John Eax and Mamelon

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Excerpt from John Eax and Mamelon: Or the South Without the ShadowThe shadow was over all - the shadow of Slavery and of its children, Ignorance and War and Poverty. In the Shadow Iwrote, contrast ing it with the light. It came to me then, almost as a revelation, that the North and the South were two families in one house - two peoples under one government, each believing that it thoroughly understood the other, and - resting in that belief - becoming hourly more and more estranged.SO I wrote, until the pages grew into volumes, and the thoughts which were once my own the impalpable companions Of my day-life and dream-life - entered into other hearts, and be came the common property Of mankind. I meet them here and there, and recognize them in strange new garbs. They masquerade before me in others' lives and words, and I sometimes smile at the antics Of the winged truants whom I would not recall even if I could. I do not judge them, I cannot. I believe they have made some lives better andnone worse, and with that I am con tent.But there were rifts in the shadow, some Of which I tried to paint. These stories are two Of them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.