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| 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... | |
| 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...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, but... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but : the Brigadier-General commanding directs that they bo in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and beneficial interest. All knew that... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but 'localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...war—seeking to dissolve the Union and destroy its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
| John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...seeking to dissolve the Union and destroy its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that... | |
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