Vulgar words in The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 (Page 1)
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'Damn him!' said Pease between his teeth; but cursing did not help the matter, so Pease discovered.
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'Damn it, I know better,' exclaimed Jessup pettishly; 'I mean--I swear I don't know what I mean, [Hiram's cold blue eye was fixed calmly on him,] cussed if I do; but I say 'tan't honesty which has done the thing for me.
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Southern white labor was continually annoyed with the appellation of 'white trash,' and other contemptuous epithets; but still was obliged to toil on under the continuous insult.
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The arguments of the plotters of treason against a 'government of majorities'--the doctrine of 'State rights,' with the right to secede at the option of a State--the _quasi_ repudiation of the 'white trash,' so called, as an element of political equality, were regarded as the ebullitions of a politically vitiated class who would be willing to overthrow the National Government, but who were supposed to be too few in numbers to taint with poisonous fatality the political mind of the South.