1 a person from the northern part of a country, or (in the US) a person from the part of the country in the north and east --
I do not speak with any prejudice against northerners.
Many northerners would welcome more control over their own affairs.
What motive did the southerners have for insisting on "burdening" (as several northerners put it) direct election with the "race rider" (as some northerners came to call it)?
War and emancipation preempted the slavery debates and, for antislavery northerners, attested to the reality and the speed of moral progress.
In his view the spirit of patriotism of the northerners was no less than that of the southerners, but because they lacked organisation, their strength was divided.
In comparison to books, atlases pose relatively little concern with respect to literacy, as maps may be understood by both northerners and southerners, although not necessarily in the same way.
A leading story line was that all northerners are 'in principle' alike, living under the same climatic conditions and sharing the same sense of distance to national centres.
Even failed attempts for freedom reminded white northerners what a great system of governance theirs was.
