| Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...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
...than in enmity. He concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...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
...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...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
...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...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
...way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...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
...way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...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
...all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...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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