Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 3Century Company, 1890 - Presidents |
From inside the book
Page 342
... In your hands , my dissatisfied fellow - countrymen , and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war . The Government will not assail you.41 You can have no con- flict , without being yourselves the aggressors . You have no oath ...
... In your hands , my dissatisfied fellow - countrymen , and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war . The Government will not assail you.41 You can have no con- flict , without being yourselves the aggressors . You have no oath ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Administration adopted amendment appointed arsenal authority batteries Cabinet Cameron Captain CHAP Charleston Colonel command commissioners Committee compromise Congress conspirators Constitution convention December December 31 declared dispatch duty election evacuation Executive February Federal Floyd force Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts friends fugitive garrison Government Governor Pickens gress guns harbor Holt honor House inauguration January January 11 Jefferson Davis Legislature letter Lincoln Major Anderson Memoran ment military Mississippi morning Morris Island Moultrie navy North officers opinion ordinance of secession party patriotic peace political President Buchanan President-elect Presidential question rebel rebellion received reënforce reply Republican Scott secede secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slave slavery Slemmer South Carolina Southern speech Springfield Sumter tary telegraph tion Toombs troops Union United Virginia vote W. R. Vol Washington whole wrote