...sentence should be separated by a colon, if they themselves are subdivided by a semicolon. Punctuate. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would...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...

...circumstances of his first inaugural, then restated the central issue of the ensuing struggle as he saw it: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...war rather than let it perish. And the war came." Then he elaborated upon the basic issue by speaking of the "peculiar and powerful interest" of slavery....

...agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissol[v]e the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated...other would accept war rather than let it perish. Lincoln now refers to the two sides of the conflict: the federal government, represented by the new...

...119. 15. Varina Davis and Jefferson Davis quoted in ibid., 297 and 169. PART THREE THE ROAD TO WAR Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. — Abraham Lincoln* ALTHOUGH AN ELECTED government of the Confederacy would not take office for another...

...itself was inevitable because neither side was willing to eliminate the conditions that led to it. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the î 44 AMERICA'S EXTRAPOLITICAL FOUNDATIONS nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than...

...hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon." Quoted in Noll, supra note 52 at 98. 72. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...war rather than let it perish. And the war came." 73. Niebuhr, supra note 56 at 75. 74. Donald, supra note 48 at 566. 75. Trueblood, supra note 52 at...

...minority of states to dissolve the Union. As he said in his second inaugural address, one of the parties "would make war rather than let the nation survive,...war rather than let it perish, and the war came." Although he accepted the bloody struggle, it went on far longer and took many more casualties than...

...address pinpointed the clashing political interests that had made war unavoidable; one party, he intoned, "would make war rather than let the nation survive;...war rather than let it perish. And the war came." That a new nation would be born from part of the old was the ultimate Confederate policy. Americans...

...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...

...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. (Lincoln 792; Lincoln's emphasis) In his third and penultimate paragraph, Lincoln shifts dramatically...