 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war...war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 4. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war...war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 4. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...While the Inaugural Address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to the saving of the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation....came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves—not distributed generally over the Union, but localized over the southern part of it. These... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 pages
...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war,...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distijbuted generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...were iu the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war,...than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 pages
...avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both, parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 pages
...avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking...war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 2. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves — not distributed generally over the Union,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
..." peaceable secession is an utter impossibility." Or, as Lincoln put it in his second inaugural : " Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would...other would accept war rather than let it perish." That the rime would come when the South would rejoice that the w«r ended as it did, and when the North... | |
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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 avert it. While the Inaugural Address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... 
