 | American literature - 1886 - 528 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...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... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...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 the effects, by negotiation. Both parties... | |
 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. (7) All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. (8) While the inaugural address was being delivered from...war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to divide the effects by negotiation. (9) Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 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. One-eighth of the whole... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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...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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 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...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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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...altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent ageuts were in the city seeking to destroy it without war; seeking to dissolve the Union and divide... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 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. One eighth of the whole... | |
 | James Boyd White - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 348 pages
..."alls," the reader asks: The North? Or North and South? What of the slaves: Are they included or not? "While the inaugural address was being delivered from...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects, by negotiation." Here we learn that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
