inkshed

“There has been a great inkshed, and a large expenditure of oratory, on the question of the origin of the Italian war of 1859; and, as usual, much nonsense has been written and said of and concerning the ambition of France and the encroachments of Sardinia.”

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861

“He smiled gravely as he thought of the inkshed that would come to pass in a _combat à l'outrance_ between the Three Dimensionists and the”

The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension

“By our electioneerings and Hansard Debatings, and ever-enduring tempest of jargon that goes on everywhere, we manage to settle that; to have it declared, with no bloodshed except insignificant blood from the nose in hustings-time, but with immense beershed and inkshed and explosion of nonsense, which darkens all the air, that the Right”

Latter-Day Pamphlets

“Europeans can hardly understand this truly anomalous phase of our American institutions; they do not understand that it is characteristic that 'we speak daggers but use none'; that we fight with ballots and not with bullets; that we have abundance of inkshed and little bloodshed, and that all that is explosive is blown off through newspaper safety-valves.””

Letters and Journals 02]

“American institutions; they do not understand that it is characteristic that 'we speak daggers but use none'; that we fight with ballots and not with bullets; that we have abundance of inkshed and little bloodshed, and that all that is explosive is blown off through newspaper safety-valves. ”

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II