 | John Russell Hussey - United States - 1876 - 562 pages
...says, with the efforts of both parties to avoid war. 'To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend the slave 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 restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...After speaking of slavery as the cause of the war, Mr. Lincoln remarked: "To strengthen, perpi tuate and extend this Interest, was the object for which...insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Governim-nt claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of It Neither... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...of the struggle, he said the insurgent States sought " to strengthen, perpetuate, and extend it " ; while " the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.'1 He spoke of the disappointment of both parties in regard to the magnitude of the war and the... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 400 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 pages
...powerful interest. All knew that this interest was the cause of the war. To strengthen and perpetuate this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed right to no more than restrict the territorial enlargement of... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...powerful interest. All knew that this interest was the cause of the war. To strengthen and perpetuate this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed right to no more than restrict the territorial enlargement of... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...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...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...the Union, but loC? ized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...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,...it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. AL knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the...it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of "the conflict... | |
| |
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. 
