 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war come. " 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 4. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend the interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war, while the government... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of...slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. AD knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1873 - 532 pages
...in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and 10 powerful interest. All'knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war....this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 400 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 ;...of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend the interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war, while the government... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...of the whole population w<re colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but loC? ized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and«extend this interest w^s the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of...slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. AL knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 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....war came. One-eighth of the whole population were coloured slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it.... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 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 ;...interest, was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed the right to do no 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... 
