 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...  The Massachusetts register. Serial no., 94 - Page 120by Massachusetts register - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...acted so. Lincoln, it is true, had declared that he would take no provocative step—" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...favoured 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,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
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