 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...  abraham lincoln - Page 212by charles carleton coffin - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you....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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...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....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | 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....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
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