| Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...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... | |
| James L. Abrahamson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...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... | |
| John P. Diggins - History - 2000 - 366 pages
...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... | |
| Steven D. Smith - Law - 2001 - 250 pages
...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... | |
| Jay Winik - History - 2002 - 502 pages
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| Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...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... | |
| Verle Bresson - 2002 - 426 pages
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| Robert G. Tanner - History - 2001 - 198 pages
...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... | |
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