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To strengthen, perpetuate and extend 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 the territorial enlargement of it.

The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... - Page 676
by Horace Greeley - 1866
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All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good ...

Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages

...reason. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln stated that slavery "constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war."55 According to Lincoln, there was no way to keep together liberty and slavery. Those who wanted...

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