This whole paper thing can go away now. It's become annoying. Well, except for how it allows me to dig up some really entertaining, yet offensive quotes from 1860 Northern newspapers, whereupon everyone uses assorted racial slurs and such.
Or, you know, there's always entertaining stuff like this:
"If the condition of the negro slaves of the South and the free negroes of the North be contrasted, we find no difficulty in determining where the comfort, happiness, and well being of the race are best preserved. In the South, as everybody is aware, the wants of the negro from infancy to death are supplied...the duty of this care by the master is not only a moral but a legal obligations, which is seldom if ever violated."
But really, you can't get much better than this happy little line from the July 4, Franklin, PA Repository: “The man who gives the orders had better soon come along or the nigger democracy of Franklin County will not know how to vote.”
They say, about the Democratic party. I mean, I dunno. That's just...odd. It's some other things, by our standards, but yeah. Anyway. Newspapers have changed in the last 140 years. And this is the, yknow, Republican newspaper. The abolition bunch. Screwy, I say.
Posted by Dwip at March 2, 2004 5:29 AM