 | 1856 - 824 pages
...Northern, and especially the New England States, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with, is that of mechanics...and small farmers, who do their own drudgery ; and vet who are hardly fit for association with a Southern gentleman's body-servant. This is your free... | |
 | William Chambers - History - 1857 - 234 pages
...northern, and especially the New England States, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics...hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman's bodyBervant. This is your free society, which the northern hordes are endeavouring to extend into Kansas.'... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...Northern and especially the New England States ore devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics...association with a Southern gentleman's body servant. — Muicogee (Ala.) Herald, 1856. "Nature has made the weak in mind or body slaves. * * * The wise... | |
 | Nathaniel Lyon - Generals - 1861 - 298 pages
...All the northern, and especially the New England States, are devoid of society fitted for a well-bred gentleman. The prevailing class one meets with is...and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet they are hardly fit for a gentleman's body servant. This is your free society, which your northern... | |
 | Nathaniel Lyon - Generals - 1861 - 320 pages
...All the northern, and especially the New England States, are devoid of society fitted fof a well-bred gentleman. The prevailing class one meets with is...and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet they are hardly fit for a gentleman's body servant. This is your free society, which your northern... | |
 | History - 1862 - 36 pages
...States, and especially the New England States, are devoid of society, 'fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics...and yet who are hardly fit for association with a gentleman's body servant [slave]. This is your free society ! " What delusion or hypocrisy it is, then,... | |
 | Obed Kedar (pseud.) - United States - 1867 - 68 pages
...Northern and especially the New-England States are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. " " The prevailing class one meets with, is that of mechanics...to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudging, and who are hardly fit for association with a gentleman's body servant. " From the South... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 pages
...All the Northern States are devoid of society fitted for a well-bred gentleman. The prevailing class is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and...farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet who are not fit for association with a gentleman's body-servant." — The Muscogee Herald, Alabama. " Many... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...Muscogee (Alabama) Herald thus sets forth very clearly the old Democratic estimate of those who labor: with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel...who do their own drudgery ; and yet who are hardly jit for association with a /Southern gentleman's body-servant. This is your free society. These expressions... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 466 pages
...northern and especially the New England States are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics...association with a southern gentleman's body servant." Contrast, gentlemen, with that sentiment, now reiterated by the Buchanan organs at the South, the sentiment... | |
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Free society! We sicken of the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moonstruck theorists? All the Northern and especially the New England States are devoid of society fitted for well-bred... 
