| Anthony James Joes - History - 2004 - 428 pages
...race." Lincoln said in his second Inaugural address: "Slavery constituted the peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow,...the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war." And RMT Hunter of Virginia, Confederate secretary of state and former Speaker of the US House of Representatives,... | |
| Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...all Supreme Court rulings, chief among them being the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision.37 And so, "All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause...which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war . . ." Lincoln's precise wording conveys the insurgents' desire to go beyond the original intentions... | |
| Robert R. Mathisen - History - 2001 - 674 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,...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... | |
| Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 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,...Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict... | |
| Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. ... 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 party expected that the cause of the conflict... | |
| G. David Garson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 366 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... | |
| Thomas Koys - History - 2002 - 244 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... | |
| Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 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... | |
| Franklin Aretas Haskell - History - 2002 - 128 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... | |
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