Word: clason
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passable for wagons only in the neighborhood of the towns. When the packet-boat appeared after the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, the traveller of that day thought that a wonderful advance had been made. In the paper on the "Fallacy of 1860," Mr. A. W. Clason enlarges upon the different interpretations which have been placed upon the words of the Constitution by the members of the different parties in the country. He finds that the only difference between the victor and the vaquished in the War of the Secession lay in the different construction of the word...