Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 (Page 1)
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Cheap white trash, clearly.
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From the princely bastard who sued in agony and vain humiliation, to the clown of Devon forced into the rebel ranks,--from the peer who plotted, to the venerable and Christian woman whose sole crime was sheltering the houseless and starving fugitive, there was given to the vanquished no mercy but the mercy of Jeffreys, no tenderness but the tenderness of Kirk.
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Meanwhile, voices of invisible singers chanted the simple event which all this splendor was commemorating,--how of old Jesus came into Jerusalem meek and lowly, riding on an ass,--how His disciples cast their garments in the way, and the multitude took branches of palm-trees to come forth and meet Him,--how He was seized, tried, condemned to a cruel death,--and the crowd, with dazzled and wondering eyes following the gorgeous ceremonial, reflected little how great was the satire of the contrast, how different the coming of that meek and lowly One to suffer and to die from this triumphant display of worldly-pomp and splendor in His professed representative.
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It gives but a poor description of the "poor-white trash" to say that they cannot read.
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Now the world is a dreffle mean place, for our sins, Where ther' ollus is critters about with long pins A-prickin' the globes we've blowcd up with sech care, An' provin' ther' 's nothin' inside but bad air: They're all Stuart Millses, poor-white trash, an' sneaks, Without no more chivverlry 'n Choctaws or Creeks, Who think a real gennleman's promise to pay Is meant to be took in trade's ornery way: Them fellers an' I couldn' never agree; They're the nateral foes o' the Southun Idee; I'd gladly take all of our other resks on me To be red o' this low-lived politikle 'con'my!