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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	738	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	98	0	Browse	Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.	98	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.	78	0	Browse	Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government	72	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2	72	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	54	0	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore)	52	0	Browse	Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.	50	0	Browse	Search
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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 29: fair women. (search)

een females; a difference in the thousand of thirty-four, where Great Britain and Ireland show a difference of only twenty-eight. North Carolina has a greater excess of females than any country in Europe except Sweden, and the old Puritan State of Rhode Island overtops her Puritan neighbour Massachusetts. The most crowded female region in the civilised world is the district of Columbia, in the centre of which Washington stands. In this purgatory of women, there are, in every thousand souls,of females than Prussia. During the present generation Great Britain has sent out half a million more emigrants than Prussia, and a vast majority of these emigrants have been males. A similar explanation covers the cases of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; but the district of Columbia is. not an ancient colony, from which the sons go out into the western plains, leaving their sisters in the old homesteads. Columbia means Washington, a city of art ; of fashion and of pleasure; a city in which

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