 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 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 restrict territorial... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 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 - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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...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 even... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 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...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 even... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...One-eighth of the whole were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...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... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1902 - 524 pages
...intemperate speech seems as great as Simmer's. Of slavery itself, in almost his last words, he spoke thus "Oneeighth 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... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 528 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 Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 pages
...parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let thp nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish:...slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
