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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... "
Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People - Page 499
by David Edwin Harrell, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 1215 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

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...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
...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 colored slaves,...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 - 530 pages
...nation survive, and the other would accept 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 located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and 10 powerful interest. All...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed 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 somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...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 colored slaves,...part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and beneficial interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,...
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The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 11

Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...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 colored slaves...distributed generally over the Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that...
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The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of ...

John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...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 colored slaves,...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 Martyr's Monument: Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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 colored slaves,...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 Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since: Being ...

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...let the nation survive j and the other would ACCEPT war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...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
...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 colored slaves,...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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