. Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. ^ reigns over the romantic valley; and the entirescene is one of rare loveliness, combining as it does the boldmountain outline, the picturesque and winding river, the fertilefields, and the signs and tokens of successful husbandry. Well, Frank, exclaimed one of the young fishermen, as heimpatiently jerked his line out of the water to rebait the hook, I still contend the South is right. And I insist that she is entirely in the can you do that consistently? We have a p
. Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. ^ reigns over the romantic valley; and the entirescene is one of rare loveliness, combining as it does the boldmountain outline, the picturesque and winding river, the fertilefields, and the signs and tokens of successful husbandry. Well, Frank, exclaimed one of the young fishermen, as heimpatiently jerked his line out of the water to rebait the hook, I still contend the South is right. And I insist that she is entirely in the can you do that consistently? We have a perfectright to claim that slavery must not be molested. Wlio wants to molest it ?. nUENDLY FISHERMEN. BEGINNING OF THE QUARREL. 13 The abolitionists, — Garrison, Pliillips, and the rest of thatcrew. Every Nortliern man is not an abolitionist. Why con-found a few enthusiasts, who are more or less fanatical in theirideas, with the great bulk of fair-minded men in the freeStates? I dont. But you can not deny that the sentiment in favorof abolishing slavery is gaining ground in the North. Why,you yourself are at heart almost an abolitionist; and thespeaker laughed disdainfully as he spoke. Perhaps so. I scarcely know, myself. To take away our slaves would be an act of tyranny. TheSouth would not submit to such oppression. Tyranny and oppression ? Those are hard words, Tom. They are the only ones I can use. How do you make that out? Why, when the people of the North try to force us to givei;p our slaves, they act tyrannically and oppressively. We dont ask you to give up your slaves. We only sayyou shall not take them into the Territories, and so create newslave States.
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