"I don't see anything glorious in fighting," I said.
"Not when you are attacked?"
"We were not attacked," I said. "South Carolina fired the first guns."
"Good for her!" said Sally. "Brave little South Carolina!
Nobody will meddle with her and come off without cutting his fingers."
"Nobody did meddle with her," I asserted. "It was she who meddled, to break the laws and fight against the government."
"What government?" said Sally. "Are we slaves, that we should be ruled by a government we don't choose? We will have our own. Do you think South Carolina and Virginia gentlemen are going to live under a rail-splitter for a President? and take orders from him?"
"What do you mean by a 'rail-splitter'?"
"I mean this Abe Lincoln the northern mudsills have picked up to make a President of. He used to get his living by splitting rails for a Western fence, Daisy Randolph."
"But if he is President, he is President," I said.