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and on the 18th of February, Gen. Twiggs had transferred the military posts and public property in Texas to the State authorities.
It is remarkable that all these captures and events had been accomplished without the sacrifice of a single life, or the effusion of one drop of blood.
It was, perhaps, in view of this circumstance, that people lingered in the fancy that there would be no war. Yet the whole country was agitated with passion; the frown of war was already visible; and it needed but some Cadmus to throw the stone that would be the signal of combat between the armed men sprung from the dragon's teeth.
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