Early Chicago a Lecture Delivered Before the Sunday Lecture Society At Mccormi
Early Chicago a Lecture Delivered Before the Sunday Lecture Society At Mccormi
John Wentworth
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Occasion- ally, one of our young men would go East and get him a wife, and then we discussed her for a while. Dress- makers would invariably make her the first call, examine her dresses, and then go from door to door, like a modern census-taker or tax-collector, soliciting orders according to- the latest fashions. There was great prejudice between the emigrants from the South and those from the East. All our Eastern peo- ple were considered by the emigrants from the South as- Yankees. The first... contest was about the convention sys- tem in politics. Southerners denounced it vehemently as a Yankee innovation upon the old system of allowing every- man to run for office who wanted to do so, and taking his chances. Their system was to solicit their friends to solicit them to run for office, and then they reluctantly consented, and placed themselves in the hands of their friends. All Yankee customs, fashions, and innovations upon their established usages were ridiculed as Yankee notions, worthy only of the peddlers of wooden clocks and pewter spoons.
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