 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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,...this 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...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,...this 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...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 ;...this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right to more than restrict the territorial... | |
 | 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...this 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... | |
 | 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...this 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... | |
 | 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...this 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
