If this government is divided, though we may agree to separate in peace--though every man here may sign the bond--we know that events hurriedly running forward will bring these two sections in hostile array against each other; and then, what a war is there, my countrymen!
Sherman warns that even a peaceful separation could lead to war between the North and South.
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