 Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this 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,...  Abraham Lincoln: A Character Sketch - Page 166by Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1903 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has. never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your... | |
 | Augustin Cochin - Slavery - 1863 - 432 pages
...terms of intercourse are again before you.'? There is no reason whatever for acting precipitately. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties." President Lincoln, therefore, does not regard the Union as broken. He vows to maintain it peaceably,... | |
 | Augustin Cochin - Slavery - 1863 - 438 pages
...terms of intercourse are again before you." There is no reason whatever for acting precipitately. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties." President Lincoln, therefore, does not regard the Union as broken. He vows to maintain it peaceably,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...anywhere. Mr. Lincoln closed his noble inaugural with the following word?, alike firm and conciliatory: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves... | |
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