| 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... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...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... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne... | |
| Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...Congress should not meddle with the domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...is still no single good cause for precipitate action. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...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 hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous... | |
| Augustin Cochin - Slavery - 1863 - 432 pages
...There is no reason whatever for acting precipitately. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties." President Lincoln, therefore, does not regard the Union as broken. He vows to maintain... | |
| Augustin Cochin - Slavery - 1863 - 438 pages
...There is no reason whatever for acting precipitately. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties." President Lincoln, therefore, does not regard the Union as broken. He vows to maintain... | |
| 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... | |
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