"
"Whatever is to do, John?"
"America is likely to go to war with herself--the cotton-spinning States
of the North, against the cotton-growing States of the South."
"What folly!"
"In a business point, yes, but there is something grander than business
in it--an idea that is universally in the soul of man--the idea of
freedom."
"Yes, I have read about that quarrel, but men won't fight if it
interferes with their business, with their money-making and spinning."
"You are wrong, Jane. Men of the Anglo-Saxon race and breeding will
fight more stubbornly for an idea than for conquest, injury, or even for
some favorite leader. Most nations fight for some personality; the
English race and its congeners fight for a principle or an idea. My
dear, remember that America fought England for eight years only for her
right of representation."
"How can a war in America hurt us?"
[Illustration: "He ran down the steps to meet her, and she put her hand
in his."]
"By cutting off our cotton supply--unless England helps the Southern
States.
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