...he elaborated upon the basic issue by speaking of the "peculiar and powerful interest" of slavery. "All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war." He proceeded to describe the sufferings of the people, both North and South, as divine punishment for...

...what generations of American historians from the Civil War to the 1950s downplayed when he said: "... slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of war."10 But Lincoln did not stop here. He hoped and prayed "that this mighty scourge of war may speedily...

...who read the longer second inaugural address will see that "colored slaves" concentrated in the South "constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was the cause of the war." They will also read the following terrible words: "Yet, if God wills that it...

...t"seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation") Distribution of slavery t"One,eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...Union, but localized in the southern part of it") tEconomic) interests in slavery t"These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest") Victory...

...the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And war came. One eight of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this 326 interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government...

...Confederacy, Lincoln went on to analyze the cause of the war. "One eighth of the whole population was colored slaves, not distributed generally over the...that this interest was somehow the cause of the war." Historians have spilled much ink for generations about the causes of the Civil War, but few have been...

...this population as constituting a "peculiar and powerful interest." He then makes the following claim: "All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war." I had a chef at L'awentura, Virginia born and bred, who once said to me that the Civil War was not...

...and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no predic- tion in regard to it is ventured. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...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...

...the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [10] One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. [11] These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. [12] All knew that this interest was...

...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...generally over the Union, but localized in the southern deprecated strongly disapproved of Lincoln himself wrote the famous "malice toward none" speech that...