“Ez fer war, I call it murder—
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.”

—  James Russell Lowell

No. 1, st. 2
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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