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The Guns of Bull Run

CHAPTER II
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But, Harry, pay good heed to me when I say it is not a mere matter of going out of the Union.

It may not be possible for South Carolina and the states that follow her to stay out." "I don't understand you," said the boy.
"It means war! It means war, as surely as the rising of the sun in the morning.

Many think that it does not; that the new republic will be formed in peace, but I know better.

A great and terrible war is coming.
Many of our colored people in Charleston and along the Carolina coast came by the way of the West Indies.

They have strange superstitions.
They believe that some of their number have the gift of second sight.
In my childhood I knew two old women who claimed the power, and they gave apparent proofs that were extraordinary.


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