 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...the basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all—a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so-called, are out of... | |
 | History - 1897 - 348 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that that the seceded States, so-called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. "As yet, whatever it...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper relation to the Union, and that the sole object of the Government,... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 322 pages
...Union or out of it, he would not consider it. It was " bad as the basis of a controversy " he declared and " good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction." " We all agree," he continued, " that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1900 - 322 pages
...out of it, he would not consider it. It was " bad as the basis of a controversy " he declared «nd " good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction." "We all agree," he continued, " that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with... | |
 | Charles Hallan McCarthy - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 566 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction. but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1902 - 948 pages
...of it while it thus remains practically immaterial could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...of a controversy, and good for nothing at all — a mere pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper... | |
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As appears to me, that question has not been nor yet is a practically material one, and that any discussion of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever... 
