 | Thomas Goodrich - History - 2005 - 386 pages
.... . 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.14 With excitement racing through the throng, many anxiously pressed forward, eager to catch every... | |
 | Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...states: "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."75 Seemingly an act of nature, beyond the control of human agency, the war came, as a storm comes.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...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...part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...negotiation. 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...part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 pages
...negotiation. 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...part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,... | |
 | Adriane Ruggiero - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 132 pages
...negotiation. 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...generally over the Union, but localized in the southern deprecated strongly disapproved of Lincoln himself wrote the famous "malice toward none" speech that... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...address: "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." Here Lincoln states that "one of them" (the South) "would make war," and "the other" (Lincoln and the... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2005 - 505 pages
...negotiation. 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. One must sympathize with Lincoln's opposition. There were none among them, indeed few in the long flow... | |
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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. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally... 
