"The Arctic rigors...have come down like an avalanche upon us. How must the poor have suffered...in ill-provided dwellings, with lack of comfortable clothing by day and night, with lack of fuel and even food perhaps! The extreme cold, before unparalleled in this latitude, which looked into many well-conditioned and provided homes with an awe-inspiring presence, with what pallid ghastliness must it have invaded the houses of the poor even to their hearthstones." -- Bangor (Maine) Daily Union, Jan. 26, 1857
"The Arctic rigors...have come down like an avalanche upon us. How must the poor have suffered...in ill-provided dwellings, with lack of comfortable clothing by day and night, with lack of fuel and even food perhaps! The extreme cold, before unparalleled in this latitude, which looked into many well-conditioned and provided homes with an awe-inspiring presence, with what pallid ghastliness must it have invaded the houses of the poor even to their hearthstones." -- Bangor (Maine) Daily Union, Jan. 26, 1857