After a sharp conflict, in which Yankee ingenuity and grit were fairly tested, the chivalry retired southwestwardly, acknowledging themselves badly defeated.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
"Even before the ice came creeping southwestwardly from the region of Niagara and passed over two-thirds of our state, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River there were people here of an older race than the hills, as the hills now are; for the glaciers ground away the hills as they once were and made new ones, with new valleys between them, and new channels for the streams to run where there had never been water courses before.
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
The people and strength of America are evidently bearing southwardly, and southwestwardly.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society