"Threnodist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... failure and increasing debt made the avowed policy of emancipation more offensive. People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist. However, independent papers which strongly favoured Seymour believed in Wadsworth's success. "Seymour's antecedents are against him," said the Herald. "Wadsworth, radical as he is, will be preferred by the people to a Democrat who is believed to be in favour of stopping the ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander |
