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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], History of smoking. (search)
One good of the separation.
We were in a bookstore the other day when a lady inquired of the bookseller if he had any of the monthlies.
He replied, "no madam, we cannot get them now." The answer was one delightful to hear.
It is a blessing that the whole tribe of Northern periodicals are shut out from the South.
A more perfect deluge of abominable trash never spread over a nation.
They were poisoning alike the morals and the taste of our people.
We trust never to see one of them South of Mason and Dixon's line.
It is one of the most decided blessings of the war that we are rid of them at least for the time, and, we trust, forever.
Pandora's box never let loose a greater evil than the detestable Northern periodicals from those issued by the rascally Harpers ("harpies") to "Ned Buntline's Own." Let us be thankful that they are shut out, and let our literary men and publishers get up some really good and enterprising works to take their places.