To the cry of "follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land," Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stamp...ede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by bet...ween seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average c...ounty in Kansas or Nebraska.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English Bob: What I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk, of course, and that you broke your bloody neck. Little Bil...l Daggett: I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead. 'Til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I lately attended a meeting of the citizens of Concord, expecting, as one among many, to speak on the subject of slavery in Massac...husetts; but I was surprised and disappointed to find that what had called my townsmen together was the destiny of Nebraska, and not of Massachusetts, and that what I had to say would be entirely out of order. I had thought that the house was on fire, and not the prairie; but though several of the citizens of Massachusetts are now in prison for attempting to rescue a slave from her own clutches, not one of the speakers at that meeting expressed regret for it, not one even referred to it. It was only the disposition of some wild lands a thousand miles off which appeared to concern them. The inhabitants of Concord are not prepared to stand by one of their own bridges, but talk only of taking up a position on the highlands beyond the Yellowstone River. Our Buttricks and Davises and Hosmers are retreating thither, and I fear that they will leave no Lexington Common between them and the enemy. There is not one slave in Nebraska; there are perhaps a million slaves in Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. L...et the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He mus...t do it as a sort of ghastly joke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for... perfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitman's famous "Song of Myself." It ...would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplac...e. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »