[Snmap-developer] Uth. This, like the first canal attemp

[Swearengen <wo...@re...>]

Aughty child across her knee, but she knows it is her dooty to do it. So
we shall hate to whip the naughty South, but we must do it if you don't
make back tracks at onct, and we shall wallup you out of your boots!" In
the days which followed, when this prompt chastisement could not be
effected and it seemed indeed as if the South would do most of the
whipping, the discordant elements which mingled in this unanimity soon
showed themselves. The minority that opposed the war was for a time
silent and insignificant, but among the supporters of the war there were
those who loved the Union and the Constitution and who, partly for this
very reason, had hitherto cultivated the sympathies of the South.
These--adherents mainly of the Democratic party--would desire that civil
war should be waged with the least possible breach of the Constitution,
and be concluded with the least possible social change; many of them
would wish to fight not to a finish but to a compromise. On the other
hand, there were those who loved liberty and hated alike the slave
system of the South and the arrogance which it had engendered.
These--the people distinguished within the Repub