"I would be willing to appeal to the god of battles -- if need be, cover the state with ruin, conflagration, and blood rather than submit."
Pro-secessionist South Carolina Governor Francis W. Pickens, November 1860 (Edgar, pg. 376)
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Cover the State With Ruin
"I would be willing to appeal to the god of battles -- if need be, cover the state with ruin, conflagration, and blood rather than submit."
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