 One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of...  The Approaching Fury - Page 430by Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 100 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...coloured slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localised in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and 0 powerful interest. All knew that this interest was...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlarge5 ment... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...colored slaves — not distributed generally over the Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and beneficial ife is never wisely given to save a limb. of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude nor the duration which it has already attained.... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...colored slaves^ not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. " Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. ' These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it, These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.... | |
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