 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...under it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...would not have acted so. Lincoln, it is true, had declared that he would take no provocative step—" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," and the risk which he would have taken by overruling that day the opinion of the bulk of his Cabinet... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...Congress should not meddle with the domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. '" Thus he assumed his positions... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy... 
