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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1861
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The interest of the mail from England continues to be divided between the disruption in America and the Progress in Italy. The One event is as near accomplishment as the other. In spite of President Lincon, the secession has become fact, and the States are hopelessly sundered. First blood has been drawn by the South, and the internecine war has fairly commenced.
Fort Sumner has been captured by the troops of the Southern Confederacy, after a sever struggle, and the people of the North are described as being wild with excitement. The Government of Washington seems to have been totally unprepared for hostilities, in spite of the big words of the President at his inauguration; and something like a panic has occured at Washington. Both North and South are busily arming, though the operations of the latter seem to be directed by the far greater energy and practical skill. While the North blunders and talks unmitigated bombast and the most execrable sentiment, the South has been quietly setting to work to prepare for a vigourous offensive.
Turning from this unpleasant spectacle of the miserable fall of the great Republic... - THE ARGUS (MONDAY JUNE 10, 1861)
I wont bore you with the outcome of this event, other than to say Abraham Lincon was disposed of by an Iraqi kill team using a Time Machine and the Civil War was won by the South. The Capital shifted because Washington was a Radioactive Slagheap...