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"Go ahead and fire at that Fort Sumter out there in the water!"
"What's Lincoln gonna do about it? He will fold. He doesn't have the backbone to fight us. We don't like his government. We'll show them that we don't like what they are doing about slaves and stuff and if we shoot one of his forts out of the water, that will get his attention. He will compromise with us then..."
(What might have been said before shots were fired that started the Great Civil War?)
