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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... "
Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur Geschichte der ... - Page 112
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The Literary World, Volume 7

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...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

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...
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

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...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have...
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The American Crisis Considered

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,...to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

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,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not...
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The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern ..., Volume 2

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...
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Annual Register, Volume 103

Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have...
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The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a ..., Volume 1

United States - 1862 - 200 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,...most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. " I am loth to close; we are not enemies, but friends; we must not be enemies. Though passion may have...
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The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with ..., Volume 1

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,...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ' preserve,...
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The Massachusetts register. Serial no., 94

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,...not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;...
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