I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
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