 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...declaring that the Southern people had degenerated into bombastic insolence and that if they attempted war the women of the North could sweep them from the Potomac with their brooms. In like manner Howell Cobb, who had been Speaker of Congress, and a man of unusual culture and ripe... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...speeches were made in which the Southern agitators were called cowards, and one in which it was stated that the women of the North could sweep them from the Potomac with their brooms. When he declared that the State was upon the verge of war, and that the people of the South were of... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...speeches were made in which the Southern agitators were called cowards, and one in which it was stated that the women of the North could sweep them from the Potomac with their brooms. When he declared that the State was upon the verge of war, and that the people of the South were of... | |
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... Curtin knew better, and planned accordingly. Colonel McClure states that at a caucus of the members of the majority party of the Senate and House, at which he was present as a member of the Senate, speeches were made in which the Southern agitators... 