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"That will not be the issue, Daisy," he said

"Papa, what do you think will?"

"It can have but one issue The Southern people cannot be put

down"

"Then, if they succeed, ill be the state of things

between thes will go, Daisy, now

that they have actually taken up arms But I do not think the

Southern people want anything of the North, but to be let

alone"

"Hoould it be, if the North succeeded, papa?"

"It cannot succeed, Daisy You have heard a different

language, I suppose; but I know the men, - and the women, - of

the South They will never yield The North must, sooner or

later"

I could not carry this on, and turned the conversation But I

had to listen to a great deal of the sa, in

which I took no part It ca her influence and all her art to induce

our two young friends to return home and enter the Southern

army She desired with equal vehemence that Ransom should take