 | Robert J. Miller - 2007 - 264 стор.
...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 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... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 стор.
...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, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement... | |
 | Tim Jorgenson - 2007 - 238 стор.
...have nodded a Yes to those words but the crowd stood all ears. The President continued. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...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... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 стор.
...let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. Ami the war came. "One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves,...perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object far which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2007 - 272 стор.
...War. The institution of slavery, he said, created a powerful interest in the states where it existed. "To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war. . . . Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 стор.
...soine-how, the cause- of die war. To stre-n»thcn, Mrs. Lincoln in gown. „ V .. r Till-' Si' COMi 1 perpetuate, and extend this interest was the 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... | |
 | Erik S. Root - 2008 - 268 стор.
...because self-interest clouded reason. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln stated that slavery "constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All...that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war."55 According to Lincoln, there was no way to keep together liberty and slavery. Those who wanted... | |
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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... 
