With them, the rescue of our country from British domination, and the establishment of the General Government upon a firm basis, were considerations of paramount importance; they supposed, and no doubt earnestly desired, that the States, in their sovereign capacities, would soon abolish an institution which was so palpably in conflict with the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

Next day’s Sunday, and next day exeat doesn’t end till twelve.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed