The Northern radicals were wont to say, “Let the South go,” the more profane among them interjecting “to hell!” The Secessionists liked to prod the New Englanders with what the South was going to do when they got to Boston.
Watterson captures the provocative rhetoric exchanged between Northern radicals and Southern Secessionists.
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