 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...  Citizen Lincoln - Page 144by Ward McAfee - 2004 - 229 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 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....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though... | |
 | 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....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 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....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 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....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the... | |
 | 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....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the... | |
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