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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 2 0 Browse Search
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t rate murder in his morning paper as a cup of milkiness and sugarless Confederate rye. The " features" of the several murders are worked up by accomplished caterers for the Northern paints in the highest style of art. A case like that of Helen Jewett ministers refreshment to a cultivated Yankee imagination for at least a quarter of a century, and the gray headed New Yorkers of that era look down with as much contempt upon your Colt and Burdell butcheries as the contemporaries of Raphael and Canova might have felt, if they could have beheld them, for the most bungling pictures and statues of the present day. It is pleasant, therefore, to conjecture that the Yankees, in purposing to destroy the whole population of Richmond, to impale the men upon bayonets, and to burn up the women and children, were not so much actuated by an animal thirst for blood, as by an elegant taste for grand scenic spectacles. How magnificently the account of Richmond in flames would have loomed up in the