Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. The transcriber made the following changes to the text to correct obvious errors:
1. p. 15, No footnote marker for footnote #18 in original text.
2. p. 15, No footnote marker for footnote #19 in original text.
3. p. 15, Footnote #19, "Attiude" --> "Attitude"
4. p. 18, "thereupon he suffered" --> "thereupon be suffered"
5. p. 30, Footnote #12, "skteches" --> "sketches"
6. p. 61, "intellignce" --> "intelligence"
7. p. 69, "about what time" --> "About what time"
8. p. 103, "depneded" --> "depended"
9. p. 109, "Ilinois" --> "Illinois"
10. p. 115, "expeience" --> "experience"
11. p. 273, No footnote text for footnote #58.
12. p. 288, "daugther" --> "daughter"
13. p. 291, "Apirl" --> "April"
14. p. 306, "Apri" --> "April"
15. p. 380, Footnote #16, "salvery" --> "slavery"
16. p. 410, "uusal" --> "usual"
17. p. 421, "supoprt" --> "support"
18. p. 429, "Apirl" --> "April"
Also, many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as published.