 | 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...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...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...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 of... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish — and on was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the...; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a li beneficial interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...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...distributed generally over the Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than%t it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...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...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
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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... 
