It is either hostilities between the government and the seceding states; or, if separation is yielded peaceably, it is a war of factions--a rivalry of insignificant communities, hating each other, and contemned by the civilized world.
Sherman describes the potential outcomes of secession, highlighting the dangers of factionalism.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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