I don't want to bust up this here Union.

But I reckon Tennessee is goin' out, an' most all the other Southern states will go out, too.

I 'low the South will get whipped like all tarnation, but if she does I'm a Southerner myself, an' I'll have to git whipped along with her.

But talkin' don't do no good fur nobody.

If the South goes out, it's hittin' that'll count, an' them that hits fastest, hardest, truest an' longest will win." The man was rough in appearance and illiterate in speech, but his manner impressed Harry in an extraordinary manner.