We seem to be entering on a period fraught with great danger.

I cannot help thinking and fearing that we are on the eve of a civil war." "A civil war!" exclaimed Marie, with an air of astonishment.

"A civil war about what ?" "Why, Marie, the thing looks to me so wild and foolish I hardly know how to explain.

But some of our leading men have come to the conclusion that North and South had better separate, and instead of having one to have two independent governments.

The spirit of secession is rampant in the land.