...mother to keep out of the quarrel. His contempt for President Lincoln was open. He was offended by "this man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low...anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his frivolity" as much as he was by Lincoln's efforts "to crush out slavery, by robbery, rapine, slaughter and bought...

...mother's son. Look at the cannon on the heights of Baltimore. It needed just that to keep her quiet. This man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low...is walking in the footprints of old John Brown, but no more fit to stand with that rugged old hero — Great God! no. John Brown was a man inspired, the...

...the same snarling snobbery: "This man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, are a disgrace to the seat he holds. Other brains rule the country."48 Such invective was, again, Southern commonplace, but it took on an odd quality of transference...

...that!" Then, according to Asia, he whispered fiercely that Lincoln should never have been president. "This man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds. Other brains rule the country. He is made the tool of the...