 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...adjusted in Union than in enmity. He concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Slavery - 1863 - 30 pages
...virtue. "The Government" (he said to the Secessionists already in arms against lawful autHorty) — " the Government will not assail you. You can have no...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." And in mild but cogent terms he reminded them of his and their relative situations, and of the final... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. 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 havo no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You havo no oath registered in heaven to... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...President closed hl» Address as follows: ttln your hands, my dissatisfied fellow. countrymen, and nut. In mine, is- the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can hove no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered In heaven to... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hnnds, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail y^u. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
..."In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow, countrymen, and nor in mine, is the momentous issue of civH war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...consideration. Tho President closed hfs Address as follows: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow, countrymen, and not. in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government w,ll not a>s,til \ou. You can have no conflict without being your•elves the aggressors. You have... | |
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. 
