Hvor kommer udtrykket go to hell in a handbasket fra?
To hell in a handbasket
I. Windslow Ayers polemik fra 1865 hævder: "Dommer Morris fra Circuit Court of Illinois sagde på et møde i august måned i Order of the Sons of Liberty: "Tusindvis af vores bedste mænd var fanger i Camp Douglas, og hvis de først var blevet løsladt, ville de 'sende abolitionisterne til helvede i en håndkurv'."
To hell in a handbasket
I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 polemic alleges, "Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.'"
To hell in a handbasket