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It cannot be expected that in a city like this, partaking as it does of the metropolitan character of

for many years, of all the most abominable elements of city population, toward the little and large caucuses

Alderman Wilson, &c., in New York city—these now stand as “the party.”

These gentry are sui generis , and to be found nowhere else than at the City of Magnificent Distances

staple of much of the newspaper columns headed “Washington Correspondence,” and what curiosities of American

pursuit of their vocation, there is a harmony in all their operations that would be really beautiful were

He says that labor is cheap now, the city bonds sell well, and unless matters are driven ahead faster

But these musical furores were spasmodic in their nature and possessed nothing in common with the steady

We never knew of an instance where the members of that family were not made happier and better by it—where

cursory manner upon music and its influences, it occurs to us what a pity it is that we have as yet no American

He said— “The American Government was a failure, and its dissolution was the question for white men as

was that all who didn’t give up every thing else, and come and bear testimony against Slave-holders, were

He too gave piety a good shake— “He thought the revival spurious so far as the American nation was concerned

confession of sins, which meant little, the same prayers, which meant less, and the same conversions which were

When he was through, Wendell Phillips related a little anecdote for the benefit of the American Union

Founded as a fraternal order on May 12, 1789, the group became a growing Democratic power in New York City

We were about waking the youngster, when a watchman who, unseen by us, had been leaning against the iron

Prior to the works of authors like Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll, children were viewed primarily

How true their notions of the subject were, bear witness poor Oliver, and crazed Barnaby, and pathetic

Dickens's social criticisms were not always well received in the United States, but Whitman adored his

Founded as a fraternal order on May 12, 1789, the group became a growing Democratic power in New York City

Prior to the works of authors like Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll, children were viewed primarily

Dickens's social criticisms were not always well received in the United States, but Whitman adored his

Barnaby Rudge is the main character of Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, an American Revolution-era

enactment, decided on certain physiological purgings (if we may call them so,) that mark a new era in American

By its repressive policy, maintained for centuries, it has accumulated upon its vast area a population

these copper colored men may overwhelm the other races on this coast by their numbers—as limitless as were

We are also to remember that, while we write this, the population there in China comprises nearly four

From our American position on the shores of the Pacific, we cannot but look with deep interest on all

.— We went into the Institute rooms in Washington st., The Brooklyn Institute, the city's leading cultural

Doubtless there were others worthy of particular commendation, but our limited time, (many had been taken

.; The Brooklyn Institute, the city's leading cultural institution and a forerunner of the Brooklyn Museum

One of the justices of the city is hawking around the purlieus of the City Hall, and the politico-alcoholic

abuses enough now with some of the justices and their satellites the constables; but if the fee system were

We were never brought up to rejoice at the defeat of democratic candidates.

Tammany Hall, the headquarters of the Democratic political machine in New York, dominated the city's

For it is little that the presiding officer of the city is of her side, while all the essentials of power

.; Tammany Hall, the headquarters of the Democratic political machine in New York, dominated the city's

A long memorial was presented from the "great gentlemen" and capitalists of the city, the sole burden

Nye said there were a great many obsolete laws which they were not expected to enforce.

It is feared by Douglas that either Secretary Cobb, or the President himself, has an eye on 1860; and

For example, the other day some thousand hogsheads of port wine were confiscated in England, and found

In this climate, and with the peculiarly high-strung and excitable American temperament, the practice

Great hopes were expressed at one time that the manufacture of native wines from the pure juice of our

[Adventures and Achievements of Americans] ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS: A series of Narratives

Nearly 12,000 prisoners were poisoned, starved, or died of fever on board of these prison ships.

Those who where buried at the Wallabout were sewed in their blankets.

died, and were stripped before they were buried in the pits prepared for that purpose.

Many prisons were barbarously exiled to the East Indies for life."

Every great city is a sort of countryman-trap.

It is often better, if you are to visit a city friend, to proceed to his abode by foot or by omnibus,

The city ordinances expressly provide that full explanations shall be posted in plain sight within every

If your errand is in the city, you will probably find no great difficulty in learning your way.

Don't be in haste to make city street acquaintances.

See Louise Pound, "'Peter Funk': The Pedigree of a Westernism," American Speech 4.3 (February 1929),

Butler, of having an affair with the "harlot" Slavery.; Decoy houses, also known as "touch houses," were

Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Park found populous tribes living on the spontaneous growth of the genial tropical clime; he fell in

possessing an exuberance of soil, equal to the prairies of the west, and able to sustain millions of population

The ladies were largely in the predominance.

Bonnets and hoops were to be seen in all directions, and many a man had under convoy two or three, and

Carolina; and streams were constantly going up the entrance plank to the Niagara, or down the adjoining

Yesterday they were transferring it to a small coaster that was hauled alongside, and we could thus get

Between decks there were also other coils of the cable, similar to the one above.

has invariably a turbid and sleepy look, while its muscles are so much relaxed as to make it, as it were

except the single one of the sufficiency and adaptability of the works to the purpose of giving the city

They are satisfied, from the very much larger sums paid by other cities for similar works, that the price

representative of the Sixth might find ample employment within the sphere of his legitimate duties, were

.— Yesterday the Herald undertook to show by statistics that there were upwards of 25,000 tailors thrown

midst of journeymen tailors’ residences, and there have been several such in the 16th ward of this city

When asked why he did this, the boy replied: “Oh, I know all the others in the trade were cutting it

Houses that employ one cutter and perhaps 16 girls, were put down as employing 16 cutters and 400 girls

Miss Beecher, in her popular work on physiology, laments the general decay of health among American women

She says, and truly, according to our own experience, that a healthy American female is rapidly becoming

The great trouble with our people—especially “city men,” merchants, lawyers, professional and business

in the rich valleys of the interior, to balance the wicked waste of nerve and tissue in our great cities

remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my country, if it were

After 1860 it transfers the power to fill vacancies from the Governor to the Board of Supervisors.

American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating What has become confessedly

The American Physique THE AMERICAN PHYSIQUE— Horace Mann, in his speech before the Christian Convention

An American Translation of the Bible AN AMERICAN TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.

There were so many venerable associations connected with the present rendering, (known as King James’

to most persons’ minds the proposition to ignore the current version, and replace it by a modern American

But if the substratum of this feeling were removed, what would be the result?

And yet the American Translation will undoubtedly be completed, with more or less exactness.

moment, of ancient reminiscences of many halcyon days passed with our friend Cauldwell, when we both were

no Opera, no Theatre, no Museum, no good entertaining exhibition of any kind; and yet here we are a city

We are a city of residences—a city of young people—a city of rational and intelligent men and women;

in these respects far ahead of New York, which is a city of wealth, glitter, and fashion, heartlessness

For this city, above all in the United States, is the city for first-class lectures.

We throw out these hints, indeed, to produce that very result—and to intimate that perhaps our city might

Suppose 40 messages came, and only 24 were sent, here are 16 to take precedence of those going next day

Mayor Wentworth, of Chicago, reports that none but office holders in that city, and not all of them,

that the aim of the office holding Democrats in this State is to place Dickenson on the track for 1860

Wortendyke , the Opposition and Democratic candidates for Congress in Jersey city, intend stumping their

perverted, and falsehoods and misrepresentations indulged in, which the speakers would not dare to utter, were

But if both sides of the question were calmly discussed in his hearing, the elector would have an opportunity

labor his hardest to make them more bigoted and one-sided in their views of public affairs, than they were

And, if they were aware that their standard bearers would have to pass through the ordeal of public discussion

Every city and large town had its association, respectable for numbers and ability, holding frequent

Speakers were invited—the Legislatures were memorialized—books and pamphlets were issued in great plenty

Its corps of writers were all enthusiasts—believers in “a good time coming.”

The Democratic Review writers were frequently quoted—some were present to speak for themselves, or as

They were invited also, by official invitation, to state their arguments before the Legislatures of some

The list of contributors includes some twenty or thirty of the standard names of American literature,

appalling statement from an official document, that there are “upwards of eighty thousand females in the city

of London who gain their living by prostitution,” more than four thousand of whom were arrested during

After dark, in the great city of New York, any man passing along Broadway, between Houston and Fulton

—A large proportion of the young men become acquainted with all the best known ones in the city.

Of the classes we have mentioned, now in these cities, how many are there who have not been diseased?

Few men can take so prominent a part in the politics of a city as the Hon. H.C.

occasion on which to express their respect for him, and their sense of the honor conferred on the city

Revised as "Leaves of Grass. 1" in Leaves of Grass (1860) and reprinted as "Elemental Drifts," Leaves

contract—thus giving Cornell & Co. control over their third of Barren Island, free from obligations to the city

made several very loose plays, and allowed their opponents to score 9 runs, and those careless plays were

They were also particularly unfortunate in having three of their men injured in the course of the game

Ketcham was substituted in his stead, so that at one time, no less than three men on the Putnam side were

If so, it is very limited in its extent; for when a National Base Ball Convention was held, there were

of the expenses of the ground &c., the surplus, if any, to go to the Fire Department Funds of the Cities

The odds were decidedly in favor of the Excelsiors in the opinion of most the spectators, and they felt

Their friends were out in full force and the crowd of spectators was probably larger that was ever seen

The pitcher, too, is hard to beat, as some of the strong batters of the Excelsiors were compelled to

warned, some will undertake to bathe right in front of houses along the shore, in violation of the city

Two of them were arrested yesterday by Capt. McClane to make example of.

Their names are John Grady and Patrick Downs, who were taken before Justice Blachley and fined $5.

New York, surrounded as they are with all their water–advantages, ought to have an almost entire population

Public baths ought to be established by the city, where the people could bathe free.

For all that, the day will come when Free Public Baths will be established, at the cost of the city,

As one looks around Brooklyn, New York, and other American cities–as he sees such multitudes of undeveloped

Norton, 1973) and Ted Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet During the Lost Years of 1860

He obtained his wealth through selling goods to American revolutionaries as well as investing in ships

He obtained his wealth through selling goods to American revolutionaries as well as investing in ships

As to the fashionable custom of decamping from the city, and pitching a new tent in a strange country

slavery is demonstrated in Leaves of Grass by the way in which he consistently includes African Americans

, various Whitman texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were

It would be well if the English abolitionists were to reflect upon it.

has been used less often to portray the UK ("John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American

In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common comforts of life.

slavery is demonstrated in Leaves of Grass by the way in which he consistently includes African Americans

, various Whitman texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were

has been used less often to portray the UK ("John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American

— A great fight came off last evening between Mike Walsh's Spartans The Spartans were a nativist group

of American-born and Irish Protestants that feared the rise of the Irish Catholics in New York.

Centre Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City, extends from Park Row to the intersection

In the nineteenth century, it was less than a block from the Five Points intersection in the city's 6th

True, they are occasionally rather fond of a "muss," but they are imbued with the true blue American

The Spartans were a nativist group of American-born and Irish Protestants that feared the rise of the

of Rebellion (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005).; Centre Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City

In the nineteenth century, it was less than a block from the Five Points intersection in the city's 6th

are, or have been until within a day or two, running about the streets in the eastern part of the city

Formerly the registers through which the hot air is admitted into the apartments were placed in the floors