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" Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. "
The Martyr's Monument: Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham ... - Page 279
by Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 297 pages
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. EXTRACT FROM THE SECOND INAUGURAL. Ibid. Both parties deprecated war : but one of them would...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish: and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...
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Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of ...

Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...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...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects,...
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The American Popular Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Lyceums ...

Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...
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The Model Speaker: Consisting of Exercises in Prose and Poetry. For the Use ...

Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 424 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 34

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...nation survive ; and the 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...
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History of the American Civil War: Containing the events from the ...

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...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...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...nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were coloured slaves, not...
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The Lives and Deeds of Our Self-made Men

Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...
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The National Political Manual

Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...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...
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The National Political Manual: Comprising Facts and Figures, Historical ...

Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...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...
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