 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...and the other would accept \var rather than let it perfsn; and the war came. .' ^ ir (10) One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, bat located in the southern part of it. (11) These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...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...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right to more than restrict the territorial enlargement of... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...and Ihe war came. " One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed equally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part...interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, extend, and perpetuate this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union,... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 pages
...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...this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strength- 5 en, perpetuate, and extend this intepest was the object for which the insurgents would... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Education - 1890 - 414 pages
...opponent, General George B. McClellan. In his second inaugural address Abraham Lincoln sadly said : " 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... | |
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One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of... 
