Word: detestation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This was the situation while the slave states were seceding one after another, and while politicians and capitalists were counseling submission to the claims of the slaveholders, in order to retain them in a Union which they had grown to detest, because they no longer controlled its central government. But when the northern states saw the south rushing into rebellion against our government, in order to set up an aristocracy of color and section, that deep instinct of self-preservation brought the north almost unanimously together in defense of the imperiled nation. Its instantaneous effect was to scatter the temporizing...