Vulgar words in The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 (Page 1)
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How much productive industry would there be in New England, if every laborer or mechanic cost his employer $800 to $1500 before he could be set to work, and if each one who undertook to labor upon his own account, and was not so purchased, were stigmatized and degraded and termed 'mean white trash?'
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These men have by their system rendered labor degrading,--they have driven out their non-slaveholding neighbors by hundreds of thousands to find homes and self-respect in the free air of the great West,--they have reduced those who remain to a condition of ignorance scarcely to be found in any other country claiming to be civilized--so low that even the slaves look down upon the 'mean white trash,'--they have sapped the very foundations of honor and morality, so that 'Southern chivalry' has become the synonym for treachery, theft, and dishonor in every form,--they have reached a depth of degradation only to be equalled by those Northern men who would now prevent this war from utterly destroying slavery,--they have literally skinned over a vast area of country, leaving it for the time a desert, and with an area of 368,312,320 acres in the eight cotton States, they have now under cultivation in cotton less than 6,000,000 (an area scarcely larger than the little State of Massachusetts); they have less than two slave laborers to the square mile; and their only opposition to the re-opening of the African slave-trade is upon the ground that an increase of laborers will but reduce the price of cotton, give the planters a great deal more trouble and less profit, and only benefit their enemies in New and Old England.
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'Damn you, I'll stripe you!' exclaimed a brutal fellow, rising in his stirrups and aiming a blow at the wounded man.
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I told him I had come there neither to be made a horse of by one nor an ass of by another.
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We do not heed the label fair That's stuck upon the glass; It's counterfeit,--an ugly cheat, That takes in many an ass.