 | Samuel Eliot Morison - United States - 1927 - 562 pages
...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 - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...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 - History - 1988 - 376 pages
...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 - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...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 - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...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 - Business & Economics - 1994 - 280 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 490 pages
...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 - History - 2000 - 732 pages
...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 - History - 2003 - 484 pages
...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... 
