 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...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... | |
 | G. David Garson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...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... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
