 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and divide •effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but j one of them would make war rather than let the nation...(survive; and the other would accept war rather than let jit perish. And the war came. " One-eighth of the whole population were coloured slaves, not distributed... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would 5 make war rather than let the nation survive, and the...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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them 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,... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; bat one of them would make war rather than let the nation...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... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and destroy its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them 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... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...to destroy It, without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them 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,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them 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,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...seeking to destroy it, without war ; seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them 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... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...to destroy it, without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them 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,... | |
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Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. 
