Further Antedating of "Peculiar Institution"

[Joel S. Berson]

Fred,

Interesting ... but disappointing, of course.  I was hoping it was a
Hawthorne/Channing coinage.  :-)

Joel

At 6/20/2007 02:34 PM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>OED2 does not have "[the] peculiar institution" as a
>>headword.  (Should it?)  It has for its earliest instance "1837 W. E.
>>Channing Annex. Texas Wks. (1884) 541/2 Strange, that the South
>>should think of securing its 'peculiar institutions' by violent means."
>
>1833 _United States' Telegraph_ 4 Oct. (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)
>These parties both have agents actively engaged in teaching the people of
>the south that their peculiar institutions are at war with their temporal
>as well as their spiritual welfare.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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