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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 11: the Rotunda. (search)
r has President seen a rising like that of the northern and western cities on receipt of news from New Orleans. Boston and New York are up in arms; Chicago and Philadelphia are up in arms; St. Louis and Cincinnati are up in arms. Caesarism is answered by a White Revival. Eloquent words are ringing through the air; Republicans joining voices with Democrats in denouncing the policy of President Grant. The venerable Bryant leads the way in New York; the liberal Adams is the spokesman of Massachusetts. Evarts lends his name to what is little less than an impeachment of the President and his Cabinet. These practices, cries Bryant, must be denounced, must be stopped, must be broken up for ever! What right, asks Adams, have soldiers of the United States to determine who shall sit in the Legislature of a State? Evarts brings the matter home: Here we have a national gensdarmerie instead of a civil police! The Legislature of Louisiana is as much a part of our Government as the Legi
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 29: fair women. (search)
difference in the thousand of twenty-eight, where Prussia shows a difference of thirteen. In every thousand souls of Massachusetts there are four hundred and eighty-three males to five hundred and seventeen females; a difference in the thousand of es 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 Washingants 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 westerin one State only, but in every State. The decline is constant and universal; the same in Arkansas and Alabama as in Massachusetts and Connecticut, in Michigan and Indiana as in Pennsylvania and New York. The rate was higher in 1800 than in 1820;
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 30: Crusaderessing. (search)
ve allowed the plea of habitual drunkenness as ground for a divorce. In America, as in England, the results are so far doubtful that the efficacy of such measures can be plausibly denied. Taken as a whole, America consumes more whisky than ever. In the most sober of her States the convictions for drunkenness are increasing. Maine, in spite of her rigid system, has more offenders and more fines this year than she has had for any other year since prohibition was adopted as her rule. Massachusetts, after trying the policy of prohibition for more than twenty years, has recently repealed the law, and come back to the system of recognising the sale of drink, and regulating that sale by licences. In Ohio, they have tried State laws, police inspection, and private enthusiasm. Judges and police have failed; preachers and missionaries have also failed. They have tried crusaders of both sexes, not only preaching men but singing women. In all these efforts they have failed, yet not so
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 33: illiteracy in America. (search)
the United States. In only five States out of thirty-nine is there a law in favour of compulsory attendance at school. These five States are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan, and New.York; but even in these States the law is nowhere carried out with rigour, and the story of illiteracy in these five States isin a land of public schools. In New York, with her compulsory law of school attendance, more than seventy thousand of the natives cannot sign their names. In Massachusetts and Connecticut the tables of illiteracy are not so swollen as in New York: yet in Connecticut more than five thousand, in Massachusetts nearly eight thousand Massachusetts nearly eight thousand of the natives cannot write. In Michigan, a newly-settled State, the two classes, natives and foreigners, are nearly equal in ignorance, there being twenty-two thousand natives to thirty thousand foreigners who cannot sign their names. One of the New Haven inspectors says that forty-one children in a hundred fail to attend schoo
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 36: Outlook. (search)
America until these gentle and pious coloured people have obtained a fixed and lasting mastery in the Southern States. Yet there are signs that this bad state of feeling is becoming more and more confined to circles, coteries, and clubs. Massachusetts has invited deputations from Charleston, Atlanta, and New Orleans to Boston, and the Southern soldiers have been heartily received throughout the North. The women, more tenacious and conservative than men, have seized the occasion of this visit to hold out hands to their Southern sisters. A meeting has been called in Boston. A thousand ladies of Massachusetts, including nearly all the best and highest ornaments of the State, have agreed to purchase and present mementoes of this visit of the Southern chivalry to Boston, as a peace offering, to a thousand ladies in the South, whose fathers and husbands played a part in the war. Americans begin to cry- close ranks! The tale of a Hundred Years of White Progress is a marvellous