A Rebellion in Dixie

"Now, Leon, you will take in everybody. Don't leave a single man out, for we want them all there at this convention." "Secessionists, as well as Union men?" "Yes, of course. I had a talk with Nathan Knight, last night, and he says everybody must be informed of the fact. We are going to secede from the State of Mississippi and get up a government of our own, and he declares that everybody must be told of it." "I tell you, dad, we've got a mighty poor show. I suppose there are at least two thousand fighting men here-" "Say fifteen hundred; and they are all good shots, too." "And Jeff Davis has called out a hundred 6thousand men. Where would we be if he would send that number of men after us?" "He ain't a-going to send no hundred thousand men after us. He has other work for them to do, and when the few he does send come here in search of us, he won't find hide nor hair of a living man in the county."