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...Contents Winesburg, Ohio ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe .....................................

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...D ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON W W W W Winesbur inesbur inesbur inesbur inesburg, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio A P A P A P A P A Penn S enn S enn S e... ...es Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents Winesburg, Ohio.......................................................................... ...D ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON W W W W Winesbur inesbur inesbur inesbur inesburg, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe I MUST HAV... ...ore than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio. Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson’s small-to... ...ier, I spent my last weekend pass on a somewhat quixotic journey to Clyde, Ohio, the town upon which Winesburg was partly modeled. Clyde looked, I sup... ...d a criti- cal biog-raphy of Anderson. It came shortly after 5 Winesburg, Ohio Lionel Trilling’s influential essay attacking Ander- son, an at-tack f... ...gard to Anderson’s inferior work, most of which he wrote after Wines-burg, Ohio. In my book I tried, somewhat awk-wardly, to bring together the kinds ...

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..., in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...he continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differentl... ...s aristocratic; four Yankees democratically chat- ting with but ruling the Ohioans and Illini and Swedes and Germans who had ventured to follow them. ... ... on: “The diagnosis of my Village Virus is simple enough. I was born in an Ohio town about the same size as Gopher Prairie, and much less friendly. It... ...en our own till we had contemptuously got used to them. It was a red-brick Ohio town, and the trees made it damp, and it smelled of rotten apples. The... ... Prairies. In winter, California is full of people from Iowa and Nebraska, Ohio and Oklahoma, who, having trav- eled thousands of miles from their fam...

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...scarcely be sustained on a per- sonal acquaintance. Two things done by the Ohio Republican convention—the repudiation of Judge Swan, and the “plank” f... ...singly urged to go to Minnesota; and I now have two invi- tations to go to Ohio. These last are prompted by Douglas going there; and I am really tempt... ...ther friends, and believe me Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN. SPEECH AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. SEPTEMBER 16, 1859. FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE STA TE OF OHIO: I cannot f... ...y 37 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five an introduction which the Ohio Statesman newspaper gave me this morning. In this paper I have read an... ...frame or draft of an ordinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in W... ...he Territories south 51 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five of the Ohio River, Mr. Jefferson expressly provided for the prohibition of slavery... ...a part of the law of the land. Under that ordinance we live. First here in Ohio you were a Territory; then an enabling act was passed, authorizing you... ...the Constitution. Not only so, but I believe Indiana once or twice, if not Ohio, petitioned the Gen- eral Government for the privilege of suspending t... ...ouglas popular sov- ereign in Illinois who did not say it. Is there one in Ohio but declares his firm belief that the Declaration of Independence did ...

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...way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the northern lakes. I believe by these and other similar measures ... ...ieved that the quickest route would be by way of Columbus, Ky., and up the Ohio River. But in detaching your force the President directs that it be do... ... of Missouri. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. David T odd, Governor of Ohio. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minne- sota. Richard Y ates, Governor o... ...and the State of Virginia except the fol- lowing counties-Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyl... ...y at all. The delegation then withdrew. TELEGRAM TO OFFICER AT CAMP CHASE, OHIO. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., August 14, 1862. OFFICER in char... ...August 14, 1862. OFFICER in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: It is believed that a Dr. J. J. Williams is a prisoner in your charge... ...MENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Septem- ber 7, 1862. GENERAL WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: Do you know to any certainty where General Bragg is? May he not be in... ...RAPH, W ASHINGTON, Septem- ber 12, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: I am being appealed to from Louisville against your withdraw- ing tro... ...ENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Septem- ber 14, 1862. GENERAL WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: Thanks for your despatch. Can you not pursue the retreating enemy, an...

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...INGTON, November 14, 1863. 12.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Cincinnati, Ohio: I have received and considered your dispatch of yesterday. Of the rep... ...HINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before me. Can... ...U- TIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, January 15, 1864. GOVERNOR BROUGH, Columbus, Ohio: If Private William G . Toles, of Fifty-ninth Ohio V olunteers, re- tu... ...APRIL 23, 1864. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 1. The Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wis- consin offer to the President infan... ...o the President infantry troops for the approach- ing campaign as follows: Ohio, thirty thousand; Indiana, twenty thousand; Illinois, twenty thousand;... ...d, he shall be credited for the service rendered. John Brough, Governor of Ohio. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. Richard Pates, Governor of Illino... ...Prior to and at the meeting of the present Congress, Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, and Frank P . Blair, Jr., of Missouri, mem- bers elect thereto, by an... ...ERNOR BROUGH. W ASHING- TON CITY, May 24, 1864. GOVERNOR BROUGH, Columbus, Ohio: Y ours to Secretary of War [received] asking for something cheering. ... ...35 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven REPL Y TO A DELEGATION FROM OHIO, JUNE 9, 1864. GENTLEMEN:—I am very much obliged to you for this com- ...

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... him tune up in a minute is Tom Platt. Man-o’-war’ s man he was on the old Ohio first of our navy , he says, to go araound the Horn. He never talks of... ...oister gray.” “Double game for Tom Platt. He’ll tell you all about the old Ohio tomorrow . ‘See that blue dory behind him? He’ s my uncle,-Dad’ s own ... ...rst an, a slippery hitch over all-an’ the other’ s “What we did on the old Ohio!” Dan interrupted, brushing into the knot of men with a long board on ... ...oid a swinging blow from the man-o’-war’ s man. “ An’ they did that on the Ohio, too, Danny . See?” said Tom Platt, laughing. “Guess they was swivel-e... ...with enormous and un- necessary descriptions of sails and spars on the old Ohio. “Niver mind fwhat he says; attind to me, Innocince. 41 Rudyard Kipli... ...to me, Innocince. 41 Rudyard Kipling Tom Platt, this bally-hoo’ s not the Ohio, an’ you’re mix- ing the bhoy bad.” “He’ll be ruined for life, beginni... ...urning 50 Captains Courageous on his elbow . “Would I do ut if I did not, Ohio?” “Wa-al, Enoch Fuller he made a model o’ the old Ohio, and she’ s to ... ... cuss us. l’ d give my wage an’ share to see him at the gangway o’ the old Ohio ‘fore we quit fioggin’. Jest abaout six dozen, an’ Sam Mocatta layin’ ... ...nd, a boy he had heard of, who drove a miniature four-pony drag in Toledo, Ohio, and ordered five suits of clothes at a time and led things called “ge...

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...o treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentleman from Indiana a question.” “The gentleman f... ...stion.” “The gentleman from Indiana gives permission.” “The gentleman from Ohio!”—these last words being a summons to him of Ohio to get up and ask hi... ...cca- sioned by secession. New York returns 33 members; Penn- sylvania, 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentuc... ...t of Kentucky, under General Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of... ...a and Alleghany. Here, at the town, they come together, and form the River Ohio. Nothing can be more picturesque than the site, for the spurs of the m... ...to Wheeling in Virginia, to Portsmouth, Cincinnati, and the whole of South Ohio, to Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio j... ...m Pittsburg I went on by train to Cincinnati, and was soon in the State of Ohio. I confess that I have never felt any great regard for Pennsylvania. I... ...e Missouri and Mississippi, has gone ahead of it. Cincinnati stands on the Ohio River, separated by a ferry from Kentucky, which is a slave State, Ohi... ...aves who will not run away. It is understood that a slave who escapes into Ohio will not be caught and given up by the intervention of the Ohio police...

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...outh, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in hi... ...’ above the mouth, it is but little over half a mile. At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi’s depth is eighty Life on the Mississippi Mark T... ...into the bosom of its gentle sister.” By and by they passed the mouth of the Ohio; they passed cane brakes; they fought mosquitoes; they floated along... ...ields of floating ice, past the mouth of the Missouri; past the mouth of the Ohio, by and by; “and, gliding by the wastes of bordering swamp, landed o... ... muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, ... ...ttom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water—what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up— and when the ... ... up. A Cincinnati corpse don’t richen a soil any.” And they talked about how Ohio water didn’t like to mix with Mississippi water. Ed said if you take... ...th Mississippi water. Ed said if you take the Mississippi on a rise when the Ohio is low, you’ll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the ... ...er travelers. When we presently got under way and went poking down the broad Ohio, I became a new being, and the subject of my own admiration. I was a...

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...formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at thi... ...formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at thi... ...ministration passes from the township to the county – States of New Y ork, Ohio, Penn- sylvania – Principles of administration applicable to the whole... ...r- visors of Highways; and in the Acts of a general nature of the State of Ohio, the Act of February 25, 1834, relating to town- ships, p. 412; beside... ...f their mother country with them into that which they adopt. A township in Ohio is by no means dissimilar from a township in Massachusetts. We have se... ...islature. In the great State of New York, on the contrary, and in those of Ohio and Pennsylvania, the inhabitants of each county choose a certain numb... ...i. vol. i. p. 340. Id. chap. xii. p. 366; also in the Acts of the State of Ohio, an act relating to county commission- ers, February 25, 1824, p. 263.... ...he tribunal, and sim- ply says, “The State of New York versus the State of Ohio,” it is impossible not to feel that the Court which he addresses is no... ...selling unoccupied lands for its own profit. Suppos- ing that the State of Ohio should claim the same right in behalf of certain territories lying wit...

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...ries themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolin... ...voyed my widow and orphans on board the train; and morning found us far into Ohio. This had early been a favourite home of my imagination; I have play... ...had early been a favourite home of my imagination; I have played at being in Ohio by the week, and enjoyed some capital sport there with a dummy gun, ... ...nxiety of Robinson Crusoe and others to escape from uninhabited islands. But Ohio was not at all as I had pictured it. We were now on those great plai... ...ins. The country was flat like Holland, but far from being dull. All through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, or for as much as I saw of them from t...

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...g into the slave States, I nevertheless did mean to go on the banks of the Ohio and throw missiles into Kentucky, to disturb them in their domestic in... ...coln will not enter into the slave States, but will go to the banks of the Ohio, on this side, and shoot over! He runs on, step by step, in the horse-... ...avery if they did not want them. “But,” said, in substance, a Senator from Ohio (Mr. Chase, I believe), “we more than suspect that you do not mean to ... ... people; and to test the sincerity of this mode of argument, Mr. Chase, of Ohio, introduced an amendment, in which he made the law— if the amendment w...

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...t of its way to ripple near this mound: and there are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek. All this I see as ... ...sts. Within a few minutes afterwards, we were out of the canal, and in the Ohio river again. The arrangements of the boat were like those of the Messe... ...the world began. Nor was the scenery, as we approached the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, at all inspiriting in its influence. The trees... ...GARA AS I HAD A DESIRE TO TRAVEL through the interior of the state of Ohio, and to ‘strike the lakes, ’ as the phrase is, at a small town called ... ... yellow line which stretched across the current, were again upon the clear Ohio, never, I trust, to see the Mississippi more, saving in troubled dream... ...e is ‘going to be’ much larger. It is the seat of the State legislature of Ohio, and lays claim, in consequence, to some consideration and importance....

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...t’s happened is that this old bladder has slid over Illinois and Indiana and Ohio like nothing, and this is the east end of Pennsylvania or New York, ... ... follow the river north nearly, an hour and three quarters, till you see the Ohio come in; then you want to look sharp, because you’re getting near. A...

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...er, hawked, in the thick of the throng, the lives of Measan, the bandit of Ohio, Murrel, the pirate of 4 The Confidence-Man the Mississippi, and the ... ...threatened to sue for libel. I won’t say anything about his afterwards, in Ohio, being found in the act of gracefully putting a bar across a rail-road... ...barked upon the Wabash in boats, proposing descending that stream into the Ohio, and the Ohio into the Missis- sippi, and so, north-wards, towards the... ...ay in July such a light and heat as only the midsummer banks of the inland Ohio know. China Aster was taken home on a door; lingered a few days with a...

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...with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At w... ... have no more public land unsold than Indiana now has. He referred also to Ohio. That State had sold nearly all her public lands. She was but twenty y... ...n- tinue the majority, because by the time one of the original new States (Ohio, for example) becomes populous and gets weight in Congress, the public...

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...he liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and... ... to force? Never! Driven from Ver- mont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some indepe... ...omprehended that that gentleman had no time to lose. It traversed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like a flash, rushing through towns with...

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...d Buffalo, and all our best manhood were in a fighting line centred along the Ohio River. One of the cruellest things about a “people’s war” is that it...

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...ke Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of the Ohio River. And all around these forts and castles lay the eternal forest, ... ...to describe the bloody defeat of General Braddock, near the sources of the Ohio River, in 1755. But I must not omit to mention that, when the Eng lish...

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...rful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there from Ohio — a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt... ...ee nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the ra... ...e was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble. Well, the secon... ... Don’t you blame yo’self ‘bout it.” When it was daylight, here was the clear Ohio water in shore, sure enough, and outside was the old regular Muddy... ... and come in; and when he was in he said he was a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio, and his name was William Thompson — and he made another bow. Well, ...

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...I was presented to Mr. Corwin, the landlord; to Mr. Jennings, the engineer, who lives there for his health; to Mr. Hoddy, a most pleasant little gentl...