Complex sentence: Through speeches and newspaper publications, Maury tried desperately to get other nations to stop the American Civil War, carrying pleas for peace in one hand and a sword in the other, each to deal with whatever the outcome.
Split into simpler sentences: Through speeches and newspaper publications, Maury tried desperately to get other nations to stop the American Civil War. Basically he was carrying pleas for peace in one hand and a sword in the other, each to deal with whatever the outcome.