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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... "
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
...coloured slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localised in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...
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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
...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...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

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...
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The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 11

Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...slaves — not distributed generally over the Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and beneficial interest. All knew that this interest was somehow...while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude nor...
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The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since: Being ...

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....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

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....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the eouthern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...
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The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of ...

John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 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....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. " Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...
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The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education and ..., Volume 2

Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...slaves — not distributed generally OTerthe Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might...
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