 Both 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, and the war came.  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 144by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 470 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...tho city, seeking to destroy it with war — •eeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Onion, hut localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but...came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slave?, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Citizens - Memorial service - 1865 - 66 pages
...ventured. seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but...accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...in the city, seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one...accept war rather than let it perish, and the war camo. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...in the city, seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one...other would accept war rather than let it perish, nnd the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects by negotiation. " Both parties deprecated war; but...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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union aud divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but -one...survive ; and the other would accept war rather than perish — and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than%t it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...in the city seeking to DESTROY it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one...would MAKE war rather than let the nation survive j and the other would ACCEPT war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...in the city, seeking to destroy it with war— seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one...would make war rather than let the nation survive, aud tbe other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole... | |
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