"landslide" antedatings (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE


>
> * political (OED2 1888)
>
> 1856 _New Hampshire Statesman_ 23 Aug. 1/7 If this is an
> index of what is going on in Ohio, look out for a land-slide
> here on the 4th of November, for we are all going one way. --
> N.Y. Eve. Post.
> [19th Century U.S. Newspapers]
>
>

Gale's 19th Century Newspapers has the same quote in the The Boston
Daily Atlas, (Boston, MA) Tuesday, August 12, 1856 p. 2 col B, and
implies that it is from the 6 Aug 1856 NY Eve Post.
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org