| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...the whole population were coloured slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localised in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather...the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest, was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war; while the... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would 5 make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather...part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and beneficial interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,... | |
| Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; bat one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather...distributed generally over the Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather...the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest, waa the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather...cause of .the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather...the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather...the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while... | |
| John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather...the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while... | |
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