 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...Union without war, insurgent agents were iu the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. EXTRACT FROM THE SECOND INAUGURAL. Ibid. Both parties deprecated war : but one of them would...colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war...war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 2. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves — not distributed generally over the Union,... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
..." peaceable secession is an utter impossibility." Or, as Lincoln put it in his second inaugural : " Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would...other would accept war rather than let it perish." That the rime would come when the South would rejoice that the w«r ended as it did, and when the North... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by...war came. One-eighth of the whole population were coloured slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localised in the southern part of it.... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...brief, solemn, and full of religious thought. Of the war, which might be regarded as closed, he said : "Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would...war, rather than let it perish — and the war came. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....than let the nation survive ; and the other would rather accept war than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored... | |
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. 
