| Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...under it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...You 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
| Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have... | |
| History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
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