 On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address...  The History of North America - Page 459edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Frances H. Kennedy - History - 1998 - 536 pages
...impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral address was heing delivered from this place. devoted altogether to saving...seeking to dissolve the Union. and divide effects. hy negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; hut one of them would make war rather than let the nation... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it—all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was...agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war;... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...on the human agencies of the Confederacy, when he recalled his first presidential address of 1861. While the inaugural address was being delivered from...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war and seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiations. Both parties 104 deprecated war,... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it - all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted...city seeking to destroy it without war - seeking to dissole [sic] the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was heing delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated... | |
 | Jeanne Fahnestock - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 249 pages
...first movement of his speech with a magnificent antithesis that speaks to the immediate situation: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...rather than let the nation survive; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish." Having acknowledged the oppositions that led to the war, Lincoln... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was...negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 2000 - 366 pages
...itself was inevitable because neither side was willing to eliminate the conditions that led to it. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the î 44 AMERICA'S EXTRAPOLITICAL FOUNDATIONS nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than... | |
 | Robert R. Mathisen - History - 2001 - 674 pages
...four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it—all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was...agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war;... | |
 | Franklin Aretas Haskell - History - 2002 - 128 pages
...four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it - all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was...agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war;... | |
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