Surrender, you damned mudsill!"

'I know some of us are what they call mudsills down South,' said I; 'but it might do you good to go and hear 'em, Deacon.

[Illustration] The Circle of the Mudsill includes Negroes, Clerks, Irish Laborers, Patent and other Agents, Hackmen, Faro-Dealers, Washerwomen, and Newspaper-Correspondents.

It is worthy of remark that the circles of the White House and the Hotels rise higher and sink lower than that of the Mudsill, but whether this is a fact or a mere necessity of the diagram is not known.

And if I see that old mudsill, Simon Cameron, I'll take off my cap to him, b'gosh!"

This house belonged to a Northern "mudsill," who kept a grocery, and owned the woman, who was the mother of five children, of whom he was the father.

Henry Clay had said that Northern workingmen were "mudsills, greasy mechanics and small-fisted farmers."

These mudsills had been talking of voting themselves farms; but it would be much more appropriate if they would vote themselves masters.

The inhabitants of Dixie invent neither cotton-gins, caloric engines, nor sewing-machines, but when they apply their faculties to downright lying, the mudsill head is forced to bow in reverence.

The events which narrow-minded mudsills are apt to look upon as calamitous, are only "blessings in disguise" to every supporter and friend of the late "Confederacy." CHAPTER XVIII.

He was skillful with his hands, and must therefore be a "mudsill."

They laid down the ties first (sometimes a mudsill under them) and then put down four by eight wooden rails with a strips of band iron half an inch thick spiked on top.