...seeking to destroy it without war —seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...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...

...to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide [its] effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern deprecated strongly disapproved...

...seeking to destroy it without war - seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One must sympathize with Lincoln's opposition. There were none among them, indeed few in the long flow...

...have controlled me." Another example of Lincoln's fatalism comes from his second inaugural address: "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...war rather than let it perish, and the war came." Here Lincoln states that "one of them" (the South) "would make war," and "the other" (Lincoln and the...

...it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation (conscience). Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...the other would accept war rather than let it perish (conscience and reason). And the war came. Great works of fiction can be illuminated by the triple...

...eloquently reflected in his brief speech. He explained the meaning of the war in spare, impersonal terms. "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...other would accept war rather than let it perish," he said. Slavery was the cause of the war, he contended, but he refused to blame the South beyond observing...

...seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would...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...

...seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. Some may have nodded a Yes to those words but the crowd stood all ears. The President continued. One...

...to destroy it without war — seeking to dissol[v]e the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...accept 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...

...extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war. . . . Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."1 These sentences have framed arguments about the causes of the Civil War for a century and a...