FORT LAFAYETTE

OR
LOVE AND SECESSION


A Novel

BY BENJAMIN WOOD


MDCCCLXII

1862




----"Whom they please they lay in basest bonds."
_Venice Preserved._

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"O, beauteous Peace!
Sweet union of a state! what else but thou
Gives safety, strength, and glory to a people?"
_Thomson._

"Oh, Peace! thou source and soul of social life;
Beneath whose calm inspiring influence,