Vulgar words in A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 (Page 1)
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Chalked in large white letters on one of the principal streets in New York, appeared these words: "Damn John Jay!
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Damn every one that won't damn John Jay!!
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Damn every one that won't put lights in his windows and sit up all night damning John Jay!!!
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"I had come prepared to take the fifty," he wrote, "and in a fit of more spunk than wisdom, I rejected the whole.
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Anti-slavery men took great umbrage to this pledge, and while Butler at the Buffalo convention was graphically describing how the ex-President, now absorbed in bucolic pursuits at his Kinderhook farm, had recently leaped a fence to show his visitor a field of sprouting turnips, one of these disgusted Abolitionists abruptly exclaimed, 'Damn his turnips!
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In his political controversies, Dickinson acted on the principle that an opponent is necessarily a blockhead or a scoundrel.
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The _Tribune_, referring to his campaign as "a rhetorical spree," called him a "buffoon," a "political harlequin," a "repeater of mouldy jokes,"[852] and in bitter terms denounced his "low comedy performance at Tammany," his "double-shuffle dancing at Mozart Hall," his possession of a letter "by dishonourable means for a dishonourable purpose," and his wide-sweeping statements "which gentlemen over their own signatures pronounced lies.