 | Samuel Eliot Morison - 1927 - 562 Seiten
...they're pupple in the face ; It 'sa grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race ; They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in...abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Thus James Russell Lowell castigated the Mexican War, in his Biglow Paper1. And although few men outside... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 Seiten
...It 'sa grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; eo They jest want this Calif orny So 's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. 65 Aint it cute to see a Yankee Take sech everlastin pains, All to get the Devil's thankee Helpin'... | |
 | Robert W. Johannsen - 1988 - 376 Seiten
...they're pupple in the face,— It's a grand gret cemetary Per the barthrights of our race; They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in...abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Private Birdofredum Sawin, introduced in the second letter (published in August 1847), complained that... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 Seiten
...free states." James Russell Lowell's rustic Yankee p lilosopher Hosea Biglow fretted that They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in...abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin.9 Polk could not understand what the fuss was about. "In connection :h the Mexican War," he wrote... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 Seiten
...free states." James Russell Lowell's rustic Yankee philosopher Hosea Biglow fretted that They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in...abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin.9 Polk could not understand what the fuss was about. "In connection with the Mexican War," he wrote... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 Seiten
...Tell they're pupple in the face, It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the birthrights of our race; They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-States in...abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Three of the letters in the first series purport to come from the pen of Biglow's friend, Birdofredom... | |
 | William G. Robbins - 1994 - 280 Seiten
...There you hev it plain an' flat; They may tolk o' Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face,— It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - 490 Seiten
...furder Than my Testyment for that. . . . They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave -states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An to plunder ye lif(e sin. . . . Ef I'd my way I hed ruther We should go to wort^ an' part, — They take one way,... | |
 | James Dunkerley - 2000 - 732 Seiten
...Tell they're pupple in the face It's a grand gret cemetary For the barthrights of our race; They just want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Such vocal slapstick was better than Puritan fulmination for... | |
 | Sidney Lens - 2003 - 484 Seiten
...United States." The war was also condemned by poet James Russell Lowell in his famous Biglow Papers: They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an to scorn ye, And to plunder ye like sin. Henry David Thoreau wrote in his classic Essay on Civil Disobedience that... | |
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Trainin' round in bobtail coats, — But it's curus Christian dooty This 'ere cuttin' folks's throats. They may talk o' Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face,^ It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; They jest want this Californy... 
