What animated him was a deep desire to take the whole South out of the Union.
The sooner we can get rid of it [the union] the better.
The abolition movement", as Houston has pointed out, "prevented any considerable abatement of feeling, and added volume to the current which was to sweep the State out of the Union in 1860.
The union of their strength threatened Gaul with a more formidable invasion, and required the presence of Gallienus, the heir and colleague of Imperial power.
The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces.
The throne was vacant during twelve months, till the election of a Sabine philosopher, and the public peace was guarded in the same manner, by the union of the several orders of the state.
Germany was divided into more than forty independent states; and, even in each state, the union of the several tribes was extremely loose and precarious.
Tacit consent, and mutual advantage, dictated the first laws of the union; it was gradually cemented by habit and experience.
There have been reform waves in every large city in the Union, now and then.
There are in the state of Texas to-day, and in every other state of the Union, for that matter, a hundred demagogues who are known to be demagogues.
And what is true of Texas is true in greater or less degree of every State in the Union.
That hope is in the unionof all the mighty forces that make for the emancipation of mankind,--a union of religion and philosophy, science and woman.
But it's different in other sections of the Union.
The ram was ultimately blown up by the Confederates on the advance of the Union army.
The doctrine of the dissolution of the Union, as a means for the abolition of American slavery, was silenced upon the lips that gave it birth, and in the presence of an array of defenders who compose the keenest intellects in the land.
They constitute the democratic element in British politics, and are as much opposed to the union of church and state as we, in America, are to such an union.
Some of the most awful scenes of cruelty are constantly taking place in the middle states of the Union.
Lincoln told them that if Virginia could be kept in the Union by the evacuation of Sumter, he would not hesitate to recall the garrison.
We of the North," said Senator Baker of Oregon, "are a majority of the Union, and we will govern our Union in our own way.
But foolish Northerners would be sure to talk war and the retaining of the South in the Union by force: it must not be; what was the Union compared with bloodshed?
Now his dollars jingled in every state of the Union--and they jingled in his own home, too, almost as the only evidences that the home was his.
By the union of liberality and justice, he acquired the love of the soldiers, without alienating the affections of the people.
And if the union is formed, armies and navies may be expected to be brought into play in fashion similar to the bricks and clubs in ordinary labor struggles.
To be a member of the militia is to be a traitor to the union, for the militia is a weapon wielded by the employers to crush the workers in the struggle between the warring groups.
The strength of the union today, other things remaining equal, is proportionate to the skill of the trade, or, in other words, proportionate to the pressure the surplus labor army can put upon it.
With what propriety, therefore, or for what good purposes, are attempts at this particular period made by some men to depreciate the importance of the Union?
For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new Constitution or a dismemberment of the Union.
But the young man wrote that his father, an india-rubber merchant who lived in Slough, did not approve of the union, and Fraulein Thekla was often in tears.
Erb was something of a character; he was a non-union man and expressed himself with indignation at the efforts of the union to force him to join.
Real living statesmen came down to debate in the Union, the older dons had been their college intimates, their sons and nephews expounded them to us and made them real to us.
I got talk with some of the younger dons, I learnt to speak in the Union, and in my little set we were all pretty busily sharpening each other's wits and correcting each other's interpretations.
We had already produced manuscript and passed the initiations of proof reading; I had been a frequent speaker in the Union, and Willersley was an active man on the School Board.
Beyond these things he had little pride except that he claimed to have read every novel by a woman writer that had ever entered the Union Library.
As president of the union, I had steadily gained concessions for the workers.
When such a death happened, the union appointed a committee to stand at the office window on pay-day and ask every man to contribute something from his wages.
The union paid a weekly benefit to men who had to strike for better working conditions.
The mill owners countered by refusing to "recognize" the union.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the union" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
