 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest,...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war ; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. AD knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest, was the object for which the insur. gents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend the interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | John Russell Hussey - United States - 1876 - 562 pages
...says, with the efforts of both parties to avoid war. 'To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend the slave interest was the object for which the insurgents would...rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed the right to do no more than restrict the territorial enlargement of it.' Both parties 'read the same... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while govcrnment claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...of the struggle, he said the insurgent States sought " to strengthen, perpetuate, and extend it " ; while " the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.'1 He spoke of the disappointment of both parties in regard to the magnitude of the war and the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...After speaking of slavery as the cause of the war, Mr. Lincoln remarked: "To strengthen, perpi tuate and extend this Interest, was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Governim-nt claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 pages
...powerful interest. All knew that this interest was the cause of the war. To strengthen and perpetuate this interest was the object for which the insurgents...rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed right to no more than restrict the territorial enlargement of it. ... Both parties read the same Bible... | |
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One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of... 
