 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . 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 population were slaves, who constituted... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 400 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...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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...insurgent 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... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city, seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. B' ,th parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather th'm let the nation survive, and... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...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...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 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... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Chris Matthews - Political Science - 2002 - 220 pages
...American speech ever, Lincoln's second inaugural address. Referring to the Civil War, Lincoln said, "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the country survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. Then the war came." Gore... | |
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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. 
