Sentences with phrase «cause confederacy»

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When Sam Houston advised Texans not to join the Confederacy, which was a losing cause, Texans threw him out of office.

The cause — the end of slavery — is unquestionably righteous; the means to that end — Lincoln covertly sending the founder of the Republican Party to test the waters of brokering a peace deal with the Confederacy and unofficially employing shady surrogates to offer patronage jobs to House Democrats simply waiting for their Congressional tenures to end — are more questionable.

In addition to pressure from political foes and friends in the U.S., the president was attentive to British and French reactions and the possibility of their intervention on the side of the Confederacy, not least because of the economic suffering the war caused across the Atlantic.

Each re-writing was in support of a passionately held cause — from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the Confederacy — each song articulating a particular version of what it means to be American.