![]() Danger signals were set, but the mariners who were trying to steer the Ship of State, let her drift, making slight, if any, efforts to put her up against the wind and keep her off the rocks. Some of those high in authority blindly pinned their faith to luck and shut their eyes to the peril. All men who were not blind saw it, but most of them trusted, many believed, that it would pass over and do no harm. It would disappear, sanguine patriots hoped forever, only to come again, full of dire portent and evil menacings. For many years it had been visible, at times a mere speck in the sky, again growing larger and more angry in appearance. ![]() ![]() The war cloud that burst upon the country in 1861 was no surprise to sagacious observers. ![]()
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