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| Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather thaa let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the...this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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,...interest, was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the... | |
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...the meaning of slavery for its people. Here are the concluding paragraphs of his brief speech. . . .One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than restrict the... | |
| John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...Before the magisterial argument unfolds this far, Lincoln supplies an intermediate step: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict... | |
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