An excerpt from

The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E Burnside

Soldier, Citizen – Statesman

"General Burnside, loyal and patriotic, felt his political convictions weakening. he saw that the Democratic party was southern and geographical, that it had ceased to have any national ideas except the nationality of slavery, that it declined to protect free labor, but sought the extension of the area of slave labor; that it permitted the surrender of forts and the hauling down of the flag, and he frankly told his old southern associates that they did not understand the temper of the North "There will be no war," said his friends. "Northern men will not fight. The South will separate herself from the Union, will set up an independent government, and will draw to her the Middle and Western States. We shall do whatever we please, and give laws and government to the continent. "The North will not fight, and the South will have an easy triumph." "You wntirely mistake the character of the Northern people," said General Burnside, "They will fight. They will never allow the Union to be broken, and a free government to be thus destroyed without a contest. If you persist in your purpose of secession there will be war, a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government. Why do you seek redress for what you call your wrongs in civil war? The first gun that you fire will unite us all whatever our political opinions may be in opposition to your attempt. The government will be sustained, and you will suffer a disastrous defeat."

Let that be a warning to you clownfags. We're still here.