XVII
MORE FIGHTS FOR PEACEFUL FOLK
My son, you skirmish around the country right smart and you'll hear folks talk about us being a peaceful people. As a matter of fact, we have had a tolerable thick sprinkling of wars. The Seminole War broke out in 1817; the Black Hawk War in 1832, and the Florida War in 1835.
Suppose we take a look at that Florida War. In 1835, although our population ex-
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