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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Jan-11 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Origin of 'Going to hell in a handcart'
Subject: RE: Folklore: Origin of 'Going to hell in a handcart'

Oxford English Dictionary-
1865, I. Windslow Ayer-
"Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty, would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket'".
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