...seeking to dissol[v]e the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...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...

...impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. ... Both sides deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. . . . 236 • FORGE OF EMPIRES Cotton than that of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, Lincoln invoked...

...44 Four CIVIL WAR YEARS In his second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln reminded the nation, "but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...war rather than let it perish, and the war came." Civil War brought massive change to the unmanned, unarmed fort at Detroit. Thousands of soldiers passed...

...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 nation...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...

...time of war have now become one. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...would accept war rather than let it perish — and war came. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict...

...manner Lincoln speaks of the "parties" to the war in the third person: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...other would accept war rather than let it perish." Then, suggesting that the war might have had a mysterious cause independent of the will of both parties,...

...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.... Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...other would accept war rather than let it perish. Ami the war came. "One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally...

...war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotations. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One eight of the population was colored...

...began to speak. Here is the core of his Second Inaugural Address: Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation...accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. . . . Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other....