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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! ... You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors!

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  2. Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.
  3. Hold the fort! I am coming!
  4. I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting - its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead a…
  5. War is Hell.
  6. I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl!
  7. I hereby state, and mean all I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party I…
  8. I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

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