| George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...war 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 restrict territorial enlargement... | |
| Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 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... | |
| Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...One-eighth of the whole 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 even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
| William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...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...interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, extend, and perpetuate this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even... | |
| William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...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...interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, extend, and perpetuate this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even... | |
| College students' writings, American - 1902 - 524 pages
...intemperate speech seems as great as Simmer's. Of slavery itself, in almost his last words, he spoke thus "Oneeighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...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... | |
| American literature - 1886 - 528 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 by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
| John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 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...was the object for which the insurgents would rend this Union by war, while government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
| Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...peculiar and powerful interest. (12) All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the .war. (13) To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest...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... | |
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