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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,606 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 462 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 416 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 286 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 254 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 242 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 166 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Feature of Yankee Excellence. (search)
A Feature of Yankee Excellence. Henry Ward Beecher some time since, in one of his speeches, took notice of a scheme that had been mooted for the restoration of the Union minus the New England States. He ridiculed the proposition as preposterous, as utterly impossible. There was not such thing as keeping them "cut in the cold"--they could not be kept out. The Yankees, he said, were too inquisitive, too prying, too permeating, to be kept out from any place they wanted to go. They were the pick locks among the nations, and no fastening was proof against them or could keep them out! This picture, drawn by a Yankee of his own people, is not only true, but one of which they are rather proud. From early times the most interesting traditions of Yankee households — the pleasant conversations "to hum"--are the reminiscences of Yankee pedlars among the people of the South, showing how the poor, simple Southerners were robbed and swindled before their very eyes, and defrauded out of