 | 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...nation survive ; and the other would accept war, rather than let it perish — and the war came. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. "While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...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... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While tho inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in this city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide its effects... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1874 - 336 pages
...into its bosom. . She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war came. 753. The next step in language is to ascend from the complete... | |
 | R. Guy M'Clellan - United States - 1875 - 716 pages
...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war;... | |
 | Recitations - 1876 - 734 pages
...directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural uddress was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether...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... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...without war, while the insurgent States were plotting its destruction. Both deprecated war. he said, " but one of them would make war rather than let the...nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish." Speaking of slavery as the cause of the struggle, he said the insurgent States... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 pages
...directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,... | |
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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. 
