 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...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
...acted so. Lincoln, it is true, had declared that he would take no provocative step—" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and 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... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...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
...favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...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
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...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
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...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
...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 the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...irrevocable amendment that Congress should not meddle with the domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...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,...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... | |
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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... 
