...warGame. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen and perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union...

...war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen and perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union...

...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localizea in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All kingw that this interest was somehow the cause of the'war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this...

...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...would rend the Union even by war, while the Government APPENDIX G. NOTES ON THE RESOURCES OF THE COLONIES . DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. In the following...

...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war. While the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement...

...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war while government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of...

...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generativ over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...the Union, even by war; while the government claimed iu, right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for...

...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...the object for which the insurgents would rend the Uuion, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial...

...the Union? At the beginning of the third paragraph, Lincoln examines the cause of the war— slavery. "All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war." Neither North nor South knew precisely how slavery was the cause. The Southerners wished to "strengthen,...

...that this [slave] interest was somehow the cause of the war," he said in his second inaugural address. "To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...the insurgents would rend the Union even by war." From a different perspective, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, also...