 | 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... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. "The 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 restrict the... | |
 | Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 500 pages
...the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [10] One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. [11] These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. [12] All knew that this interest was... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 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, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 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, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict... | |
 | Adriane Ruggiero - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 132 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,...generally over the Union, but localized in the southern deprecated strongly disapproved of Lincoln himself wrote the famous "malice toward none" speech that... | |
 | Robert J. Miller - History - 2007 - 264 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 even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict... | |
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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... 
