 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 708 pages
...corresponding to this four years ago the thoughts of all of us were anxiously directed to the impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address, devoted altogether to the saving of the Union without war, was beingdelivered from this place, insurgent... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it....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... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...were anxiously directed to an impending civil war All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While tho inaugural address was being delivered from this place,...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects... | |
 | R. Guy M'Clellan - United States - 1875 - 716 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...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;... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural uddress was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...occasion corresponding to this, four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avoid...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...occasion corresponding to this, four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avoid...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 400 pages
...occasion corresponding to this, four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it....saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it....insurgent 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... | |
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On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address... 
