 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Citizens - Memorial service - 1865 - 66 pages
...the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One eighth of the whole... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the Inaugural Address was...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and destroy its effects... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the Inaugural Address was...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and destroy its effects... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the ianugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to aroid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in tho city, seeking to destroy it with war — •eeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects... | |
 | History, Modern - 1865 - 454 pages
...four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it. All sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was...devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, the insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert 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 without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union aud divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated...would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than perish — and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...four" years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was...would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. Oneeighth of the whole... | |
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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 avoid it. 
