“Gentlemen may cry, ‘Peace! Peace!’ but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? Wha...
Wow, did some of them ever work up quite the indignant lather. I imagine some of it was emotion-worked (IOW, not quite really indignant, just put on for show). …Well, I had already started to get weary of the kind of conversational topics that included– at length and detail– how...