I was just on the train to Fernandina when my friend Tanny told me that Lincoln had been elected. "How do you know?" I asked, and she replied, "That man over there has a telegram." I couldn't help but overhear some people talkin' about how Lincoln was going to "Brown us all" with his black Republicanism. Now, as the daughter of a prominent South Carolina politician, I have to disagree with the outcome of the election. Though I was born and raised a Southern patriot, my opposing views on slavery are strong. I do have that in common with Lincoln, but that only. But now that he has been elected, I am afraid that a war is eminent. Slavery has to go, but the South does not have to go with it.
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