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" On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. "
american prose - Page 263
by george rice carpenter - 1898
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural...•effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but j one of them would make war rather than let the nation (survive; and the other would accept war rather...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it. all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war, seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would 5 make war rather than...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...Union without -war, insurgent agents were in the city secking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation....
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it. All sought to avert itWhile Greeley Horace" Horace Greeley( the saving of the Union without war, insurgent agenta were in the city, seeking to destroy it without...
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History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving ...

Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
...all thought* were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than...
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Lessons in Elocution ...

A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - 1865 - 506 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war ; seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than...
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 236 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war, seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects by negotiation. " Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than...
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National Jewels: Washington, Lincoln, and the Fathers of the Revolution

1865 - 138 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war ; seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than...
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Gems from Abraham Lincoln: Born February 11 [i.e. 12], 1809, in Hardin ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 78 pages
...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than...
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