 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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 one... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...with simple truth, in his inaugural address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-citizens, in yours and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the govern* Quoted from memory. COMFORT IN TRIBULATION.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Slavery - 1863 - 30 pages
...virtue. "The Government" (he said to the Secessionists already in arms against lawful autHorty) — " the Government will not assail you. You can have no...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." And in mild but cogent terms he reminded them of his and their relative situations, and of the final... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 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,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 pages
...sentences completely disprove the charge under consideration. The President closed his Address as follows: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 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,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
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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... 
