 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...you who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war,' who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...left in the honorable custody of a peaceful ordnance serjeant, seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...you, who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war;' who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...sergeant; seized and made prisoners of war the very garrison sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians, long before any overt act was committed... | |
 | History - 1865 - 728 pages
...you who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, dark and cruel war, who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...seized our arsenals and forts that were left in the honourable custody of a peaceful Ordnance Sergeant ; seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons... | |
 | Thomas L. Wilson (of Tennessee.) - Refugees - 1864 - 316 pages
...the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war—dark and cruel war—who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted our flag, seized our arsenals and forts that were left in honorable custody of peaceful ordnance sergeants, seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons... | |
 | Thomas L. Wilson - 1864 - 310 pages
...you, who in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war — dark and cruel war — who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted our flag, seized OUF arsenals and forts that were left in honorable custody of peaceful ordnance sergeants, seized and... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...you, who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war;' who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...Indians, long before any overt act was committed by tho (to you) hateful Lincoln Government ; tried to force Kentucky and Missouri into the rebellion in... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1865 - 410 pages
...manner. " You who in the midst of peace and prosperity have plunged a nation into war, ' dark and cruel war ; ' who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...people against negroes and Indians, long before any avert act was committed by the (to you) hateful Lincoln Government ; tried to force Kentucky and Missouri... | |
 | Faunt Le Roy Senour - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1865 - 736 pages
...you, who in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, " dark and cruel war," who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...war the very garrisons sent to protect your people againstNegroes and Indians, long before any overt act was committed by the (to you) hateful Lincoln... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...you, who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war;' who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted...ordnance sergeant; seized and made prisoners of war the verr garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians, long before anv overt act was... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...and prosperity, have plunged a nation into war, dark and cruel war ; who dared and badgered us into battle ; insulted our flag; seized our arsenals and...peaceful ordnance sergeant; seized and made prisoners even the very first garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians, long before... | |
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In the name of common sense, I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner — you, who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war... 
