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At this outburst of popular feeling disloyalty shrunk out of sight for a time , and apparently the invaders who had come north as allies of the peace party created an uprising , as they had expected , but it was hostile to them . The people were reminded of the threats of the Southern leaders . The speech of Jeff Davis in the winter of 1860-61 was quoted : `` If war should result from secession , it will not be our fields that will witness its ravages , but those of the North . '' The fact that this prediction was already fulfilled stung even the half-hearted into action , and nerved the loyalty of others , and when it became known that the gallant Seventh Regiment would march down Broadway en route for Pennsylvania at noon , multitudes lined the thoroughfare and greeted their defenders with acclamations . Merwyn knew that Marian would witness the departure , and he watched in the distance till he saw her emerge from her home and go to a building on Broadway in which her father had secured her a place . She was attended by an officer clad in the uniform of a service so dear to her , but which HE had sworn never to wear . He hastily secured a point of observation in a building opposite , for while the vision of the young girl awakened almost desperate revolt at his lot , he could not resist a lover 's impulse to see her .