You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? ✨ Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. The Civil War: A Book of Quotations by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.
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