Crossword-Solution: NORTHERNS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Some few sympathize with the Northerns, and some few with the Southerns, but far the greater portion sympathize with neither completely, but lament that each party should be making so much greater an expenditure of life and property than can be compensated for by any advantage they can dream of obtaining.

Those who are the least favorable to the Northerns are not so from any approbation of slavery, but from not understanding that the war is waged in the cause of abolition.

But we Northerns are not so easily to be talked out of the powerful, solemn impressions which seize upon the mind at entering a Gothic cathedral.

The Northerns retain much of the cold formality and unbending hardness of the stranger-settlers from whom they are descended, while the Southerns exhibit that warm-hearted, lively, and poetical temperament for which the country is celebrated.

This must have been the first draft of _Brand_, which was begun, we know, as a narrative, or as the Northerns call it, an "epic" poem; although a sketch for the _Julianus Apostata_ was already forming in the back of his head, as a subject which would, sooner or later, demand poetic treatment.