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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 11 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 10 8 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 9 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 9 5 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 7 7 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. 6 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 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.) 3 1 Browse Search
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mpt it. These two instances are sufficient, But, in fact, the whole letter of Buchanan is full of such. Old Fuss is, indeed, the most unfortunate of men in his paper wars, however he may have succeeded in wars of another description. His admirers claim for him that, like Marlborough, he never drew his sword but to conquer. His detractors assert that he never took up his pen but to be vanquished — It makes but little difference who his secretary may be, whether General Jackson or Secretary Marcy, whether Jeff. Davis or James Buchanan; the result is invariably the same. His opponent is sure to make the feathers fly, and old Fuss comes out of the scrape picked as clean as the jackdaw in the fable, when he had dressed himself in the plumage of the peacock. He had best confine himself to his favorite amusements of taking the oath of allegiance some half dozen times a day, and telling his rattlesnake stories after dinner. "Fuss" was never meant for an author. We do not think the