...moral universe, a universe in which the South's position on slavery merits condemnation: 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 restrict the...

...corresponding to this four years ago ..." he said, One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. ... These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest....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...

...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...

...perish, and the war came. "Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds." 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 to restrict...

...divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war 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...

...would accept war rather than let it perish. And the wyar came. One-eighth of the whole population was colored slaves, not distributed generally over 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...

...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...

...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, even by war; while the government claimed no 33. See especially Bushnell's "Our...

...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...