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Updated: June 26, 2025
"No, no; it's not that I mean. My religion has nothing to do with Swampville. Thank the Lord for his mercy, I've been led into a surer way of salvation. I suppose, Brother Holt, you've heard of the new Revelation?" "Heern o' the new rev'lation. Wal, I don't know as I hev. What's the name o't?" "The book of Mormon?" "Oh! Mormons! I've hearn o' them.
My arms I carried upon my person: my sword only being strapped along the saddle. Bidding adieu to my friend, I mounted my noble Arab; and, heading him to the road, commenced journeying towards the Western Reserve. Between Nashville and Swampville extends a distance of more than a hundred miles just three days' travel on horseback.
The post-mark, "Van Buren, Arkansas," sufficiently indicated the direction we were to take; and not, till we had cleared the skirts of Swampville, and were en route for Memphis, did I enter on the pleasure of perusal. The address was simply as before: "To Edward Warfield;" and so to the apostrophic commencement: "Stranger!"
It was only after entering the Reserve, that I became fully assured of its existence; and there it was known as a "settlement" rather than a "city." For all that, Swampville proved to be not so contemptible a place; and the reason I had encountered so little traffic, while approaching it, was that I had been coming in the wrong direction in other words, I had approached it from behind.
In a few minutes, it was folded up, and strapped over the cantle of my saddle; and, with this odd addition to my equipage, I once more plunged into the forest-path. For the next mile, the trace led through heavy bottom-timber, such as we had traversed, after leaving the settlement of Swampville.
In our case, the delight of anticipation could not be enhanced by actual possession: since we had possession already. We arrived safely in Swampville. In the post-office of that interesting village a letter awaited me, of which "jet black was de seal."
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