 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...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 population were...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... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. " One-eighth of the whole population...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... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Citizens - Memorial service - 1865 - 66 pages
...nation survive, 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...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... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were...To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest, waa the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slave?, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized...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... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Onion, hut localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves...this interest was the object for which the insurgents wopld rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...interest was the object for which the insurgents would Second Inauguration. Inaugural Address, rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...the whole population were colored slaves-— not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...this interest was the object for which the insurgents y/ould rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the... | |
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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... 
