| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 pages
...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...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... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...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 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, but... | |
| John Carroll Power - 1889 - 486 pages
...to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation, f Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war cijme. " One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...welfare of his country. Tender and pathetic his words: the Union and divide the effects by negotiations. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiations. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1890 - 548 pages
...welfare of his country. Tender and pathetic his words: the L'nion and divide the effects by negotiations. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the warGame. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 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...rather than let the nation survive, and the other would aecept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.7One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
| Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...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...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... | |
| Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...were in the city, seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war,...but one of them would make war rather than let the Ration survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish; and the war came. One-eighth... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...were in the citv seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war...whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generativ over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar... | |
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