Monday, August 9, 2010

Everybody does not know . . .

. . . that it is a lie that the North provoked the South into the war – The history of Congress proves it to be true, as does the history of politics for forty years past. – {Dubuque Herald.

But everybody does know that Father Mahoney is a secessionist as poisonous as a copperhead in August – too mean to take the side of his country – too cowardly to fight for the Southern Confederacy.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p 1

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