 | G. David Garson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 366 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 altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it— all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted...war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war One eighth of... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 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... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it-all sought to avert it. While the general 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... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...voice, began his address. Reminding his audience of the circumstances of the First Inaugural he said, "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." After having defined the issue — war or disunion — and placing... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 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 altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union... | |
 | James Panabaker - History - 2004 - 264 pages
...military matters or venture a prediction as to the outcome, though his hope was high in that regard. "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. . . . Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...Baptist who never lost hold of the proposition that nations and men are instruments of the Almighty. 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... | |
 | V. Neil Wyrick - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 132 pages
...to a nation now crisscrossed with scars and the agony of it spilled forth as his words reached out. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.... Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war... | |
 | Timothy Flanagan - History - 2004 - 106 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...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... | |
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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. 
