"Most certainly." "What will you do with Washington?" "We don't want it. Remove it if you want to; but Maryland is ours."[1] [Footnote 1: Ohio State Journal.] Such was the conversation; and this feeling, that they must have all the Slave States to form a great slaveholding confederacy, was universal in the South. Besides this, they held the people in the Free States in contempt. Even the children of the South were so influenced by the system of slavery that they thought themselves superior to the people of the Free States who worked for a living. I heard a girl, who was not more than ten years old, say that the Northern people were all "old scrubs"! Not to be a scrub was to own slaves,--to work them hard and pay them nothing,--to sell them, to raise children for the market,--to separate mothers from their babes, wives from their husbands,--to live solely for their own interests, happiness, and pleasure, without regard to the natural rights of others. This little girl, although her mother kept a boarding-house, felt that she was too good to play with Northern children, or if she noticed them at all, it was as a superior. Feeling themselves the superiors of the Northern people, having been victorious at Manassas, the people of the South became enthusiastic for continuing the war. Thousands of volunteers joined the Rebels already in arms. Before the summer of 1861 had passed, General Johnston had a large army in front of Washington, which was called the Army of the Potomac. At the same time thousands rushed to arms in the North. They saw clearly that there was but one course to pursue,--to fight it out, defeat the Rebels, vindicate their honor, and save the country. The Union army which gathered at Washington was also styled the Army of the Potomac. Many of the soldiers who fought at Manassas were three months' men. As their terms of service expired their places were filled by men who enlisted for three years, if not sooner discharged. General George B. McClellan, who with General Rosecrans had been successfully conducting the war in Western Virginia, was called to Washington to organize an army which, it was hoped, would defeat the Rebels, and move on to Richmond.