FORT LAFAYETTE

OR

LOVE AND SECESSION

A Novel

BY BENJAMIN WOOD

MDCCCLXII

1862

——"Whom they please they lay in basest bonds."
Venice Preserved.

"O, beauteous Peace!
Sweet union of a state! what else but thou
Gives safety, strength, and glory to a people?"
Thomson.

"Oh, Peace! thou source and soul of social life;
Beneath whose calm inspiring influence,
Science his views enlarges, art refines,
And swelling commerce opens all her ports;
Blest be the man divine, who gives us thee!"
Thomson.

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser."
Shakspeare.