 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...brief, solemn, and full of religious thought. Of the war, which might be regarded as closed, he said : "Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would...war, rather than let it perish — and the war came. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 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,...rather than let the nation survive; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 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,...than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war;...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war come. " One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 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,...than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would inako war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1874 - 336 pages
...into its bosom. . She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 753. The next step in language is to ascend from the complete sentence to the paragraph. (a.) The paragraph... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...without war, while the insurgent States were plotting its destruction. Both deprecated war. he said, " but one of them would make war rather than let the...other would accept war rather than let it perish." Speaking of slavery as the cause of the struggle, he said the insurgent States sought " to strengthen,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...it perish — and the war came. One-eighth of the population were slaves, who constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...it perish — and the war came. One-eighth of the population were slaves, who constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest... | |
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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. 
