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The Muscogee GA Herald - Sept, 1856 - September, 1856
Free society! We sicken at the name. What is it (the north) but a conglomeration of greasy machines, filthy operatives, small fisted farmers, and moon struck theorists? All the northerners and especially the New England states are devoid of society fitted for well bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery; and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentlemen's body servant.
Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 1861
The state of society in the South and their legislation, exhibits a growing tendency to lapse back into barbarism. There are but few schools, and the masses are growing up in ignorance and vice. Men resort to violence and bloodshed, rather than to calm discussion and courts of justice to settle their disputes and difficulties. All classes are impatient of restraint, and indulge in recklessness and lawless disregard and contempt of all institutions of society or religious belief…(they oppose any thing which would oppose the free exercise of their passion and prejudice…
The Christian world rose up through just such a state of things to its present mind, moral, peaceable, humane and enlightened stand point and the south has already sunk three centuries back toward the age of barbarism.