 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to divide the effects by negotiation. (9) Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...let the nation survive; and the other would accept \var rather than let it perfsn; and the war came. .' ^ ir (10) One eighth of the whole population were... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 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 Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...being delivered from this place, devoted 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 the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...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 war,...accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...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 war,...accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1889 - 486 pages
...to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation, f Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war cijme. " One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from tins place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the...rather than let the nation survive, and the other would aecept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.7One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...welfare of his country. Tender and pathetic his words: the Union and divide the effects by negotiations. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 2000 - 366 pages
...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 let it perish. And the war came."4 Unsure of what ultimately caused the war or who is to blame for it, Lincoln could only remain... | |
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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... 
