Excerpt from The American Ten Years War, 1855-1865 Contemplating these events we have to ask ourselves: Is here a mere local trouble, a border foray of outlaws, or is this Spirit getting to be general in the South? Is the ballot, the great anglo-saxon instrumentality for obviating vio lence, to be set aside by violence? Is the ma jority no longer to rule in this country? If so, war must come, since the means of all peaceful settlement between contending parties is broken into fragments and scattered to the winds. Ominous of 1861 is already 1855 in Kansas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.