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We may be for or against the South. But there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an Army; they are making, it appears, a Navy; and they have made - what is more than either - they have made a Nation.... We may anticipate with certainty the success of the Southern States so far as regards their separation from the North.

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