Word: copperheads
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...Enforcement,* at a W. C. T. U. meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...
...Also of the copperhead snake and bears...
...developing serums against U. S. snake bites was relatively easy. He had the technique of production. There remained to make a survey of noxious U. S. reptiles. He found only 19 kinds of them. Thirteen belonged to the rattler (Crotalus) family. Others were massasauga and pigmy rattler (Sistrurus family), copperhead and cottonmouth moccasin (Agkistrodon family), coral and harlequin (Micrurus family). Harlequins and corals are rare, appearing only in the south. Moccasins and copperheads frequent the southeastern and eastern states...
...Catch the snake that did the biting. To identify it is to know what serum to use. Polyvalent serums are made, good against rattler, moccasin or copperhead bites. For other snakes specific anti-venoms must be used...
...acquaintance and friend of the former Chief Justice, permit me to say that he was not a Confederate Veteran, but an Illinois Copperhead- and a bitter one at that, but he never entered the Rebel Army ; also he was not a Roman Catholic, he and his family were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been formerly members of the Congregational Church in Augusta, Me., and entering the Episcopal Church just before or a few years after the Chief Justice was born. I think he saw the error of his ways as to Copperheadism, and would not thank...