 | Steven D. Smith - Law - 2001 - 250 pages
...hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon." Quoted in Noll, supra note 52 at 98. 72. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...war rather than let it perish. And the war came." 73. Niebuhr, supra note 56 at 75. 74. Donald, supra note 48 at 566. 75. Trueblood, supra note 52 at... | |
 | Robert G. Tanner - History - 2001 - 198 pages
...address pinpointed the clashing political interests that had made war unavoidable; one party, he intoned, "would make war rather than let the nation survive;...war rather than let it perish. And the war came." That a new nation would be born from part of the old was the ultimate Confederate policy. Americans... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...minority of states to dissolve the Union. As he said in his second inaugural address, one of the parties "would make war rather than let the nation survive,...war rather than let it perish, and the war came." Although he accepted the bloody struggle, it went on far longer and took many more casualties than... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 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...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. (Lincoln 792; Lincoln's emphasis) In his third and penultimate paragraph, Lincoln shifts dramatically... | |
 | Dan McKanan - Religion - 2002 - 312 pages
...he suggested that human agency could explain neither the beginning nor the perpetuation of the war: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...war rather than let it perish. And the war came." The true explanation of the war thus lay in God's righteous indignation against the sin of slavery.... | |
 | Laura M. Giusti - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 132 pages
...aggressività, come risulta evidente da questo passaggio, tratto dal secondo discorso inaugurale (1865):1 (( Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...other would accept war rather than let it perish. And war carne. )) HH 9-4 La poesia Nata per esprimere sentimenti religiosi, la poesia americana varca questi... | |
 | Allen D. Spiegel - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 414 pages
...June 26, 1861. In Lincoln's second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, he was concise and biblical. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...other would accept war rather than let it perish... With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the... | |
 | James W. Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 390 pages
...voiced some of the grandest hopes for the future of the nation. In March 1865, Lincoln told the nation, "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accepi war rather than let it perish. And the war came." And at the war's end, he was quite clear just... | |
 | Ronald C. White - History - 2002 - 256 pages
...While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the...city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissole [sic] the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 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...would accept war rather than let it perish. And the wyar came. One-eighth of the whole population was colored slaves, not distributed generally over the... | |
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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... 
