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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War - Page 236
by Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither...the duration which it has already attained. Neither expected that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should...
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...the insurgents would rend the Union by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither...cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlarge15 ment of it. Neither party expected the magnitude or the duration which it has already...anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less...
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The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 11

Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...insurgents would rend the Union, even by war: while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither...Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease-with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...insurgents would rend the Union even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to ct in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on Slavery. I did understand, howev nor the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict...
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Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln ...

John McClintock - Funeral sermons - 1865 - 60 pages
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The Martyr's Monument: Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither...cease with, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, aijd a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither...cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither...cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the...
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