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James Russell Lowell, Among my books 5 5 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 4 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 2 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.) 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
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y who has equalled Abraham Lincoln in the combined secretiveness, hypocrisy, and diabolism of his character.--The name of this man was Williams, and he flourished in London about the year 1808. --Whoever will read "Three Remarkable Murders," by De Quincey, will find the most mysterious and remorseless murderer of the nineteenth century the exact counterpart of Abraham Lincoln. This man was so civil in his demeanor that if, by chance, in passing through the street, the professional instrument whit knowing who he was or what he wanted, felt she was doomed, and, dropping down upon her knees, the involuntary exclamation was wrung from her lips, "Lord God, have mercy on me." But it is doing great injustice to this eminent "artist," as De Quincey calls him, to liken the murderer of a few families to Abraham Lincoln, or any of his Cabinet. Williams may have had the genius of Lincoln, and possibly the thirst for blood; but he never had the opportunity. Here is this man, professing for m