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...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...war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it....

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...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...

...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...

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...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...