 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 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... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 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... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...seeking to destroy the Union without war, seeking to dissolve it and divide its eflects by negotiations. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; the other would accept war rather than let it perish — and war came. One eighth of the whole population... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...brief, solemn, and full of religious thought. Of the war, which might be regarded as closed, he said : "Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would...war, rather than let it perish — and the war came. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...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 war,...rather 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... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the...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 - United States - 1872 - 690 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... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 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... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...avert 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 its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than... | |
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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... 
