 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated...other would accept war rather than let it perish. And war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...so bravely shed, not to break up the Union. Yet all in vain. " Both parties deprecated war; but one would make war rather than let the Nation survive; and the other would accept war inr rather than let it perish. And the war came." Lincoln did all he could to avert it, but there was... | |
 | 1895 - 340 pages
...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Washington (D.C.) - 1895 - 372 pages
...tones of Lincoln's voice sounded over the vast concourse. There was applause, however, at the words, "both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...would accept war rather than let it perish " ; and the cheer that followed these words lasted long enough to make a considerable pause before he added sententiously,... | |
 | Grace H. Smithdeal - English language - 1895 - 232 pages
...they themselves are subdivided b" a semicolon. Punctuate Both parties deprecated war butone of 1hem would make war rather than let the nation survive...accept war rather than let it perish and the war came. THE PERIOD. The Period marks the end of a sentence. Rule 1.— A period should be used at the end of... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - Heroes - 1895 - 366 pages
...this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union 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 it perish. And the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - United States - 1895 - 376 pages
...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it 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 it perish. And the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed... | |
 | John Sherman - Cabinet officers - 1895 - 724 pages
...he said : " Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the Union survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came." He hopefully predicted the result of the war, but he said : "Yet, if God wills that it continue until... | |
 | John Sherman - Cabinet officers - 1895 - 734 pages
...(361) Keferring to the condition of the controversy at the time of his former inaugural, he said : •" Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the Union survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came." He hopefully... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...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 war;...accept war rather than let it perish; and the war came. "One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union,... | |
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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. 
