| John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 554 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...Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar ft and powerful interest. | All knew that this interest was, 1 somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen,... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 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...slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 568 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...slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but loealized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1890 - 548 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 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 population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...nation survive, and the other would aecept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.7One-eighth 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... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 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 population were colored slaves. These slaves constituted a peculiar powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the... | |
| Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 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... | |
| Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 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...part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and beneficial interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - Family farms - 1978 - 1172 pages
...between Southern and Northern rural societies. In his second inaugural address he said: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.8 In the Far West even before the Civil War, a distinctive pattern of man's relation to land was... | |
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