Albert Beveridge: “Blood had been shed in New England; blood, they knew, must soon flow…”

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Blood had been shed in New England; blood, they knew, must soon flow in Virginia.

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Beveridge reflects on the inevitability of conflict in Virginia following tensions in New England.

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Albert Beveridge: “Blood had been shed in New England; blood, they knew, must soon flow in Virginia.”