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Rail-splitter

noun
1.
A laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences.  Synonym: splitter.





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"Rail-splitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... are ready. We have word from them all. It is only a matter of a few days until every state in the lower south goes out, but we want also and we need greatly those on the border, famous states like your Kentucky and Virginia. Do you not see how you are threatened? With the triumph of the rail-splitter, Lincoln, the seat of power is transferred to the North. It is not alone a question of slavery. The balance of the Union is destroyed. The South loses leadership. Her population is not increasing rapidly, and hereafter ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
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... letter to Hooker! If all the letters, messages and speeches of Lincoln were destroyed, except that one letter to Hooker, we still would have an excellent index to the heart of the Rail-Splitter. ...
— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard
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Words linked to "Rail-splitter" :   manual laborer, labourer, jack, laborer


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