...be cast. 93 President ABRAHAM LlNCOLN stated in his lnaugural Address, March 4, 1861: lntelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. 94 BA CACr/R ED - W1LL 1 AM J. FEOER ER 57 President ANDREW JOHNSON, regarding his first...

...that justice will surely prevail by 145 the judgment of this great tribunal of the Amencan people. ... Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...forsaken this favored land are still competent to 150 adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...

...surely prevail by 145 the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. . . . lntelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him...forsaken this favored land are still competent to 150 adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...

...resolution of the crisis. Speaking to the South near the conclusion of his address, Lincoln added, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war." Then, reaching out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We...

...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...inaugural address, he concisely warned the south: "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 have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one...

...position on slavery was right, God would convince federal officials to make the necessary adjustments. "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land," he insisted, could best resolve "our present difficulty."256 Despite three years of war, Lincoln told...

...in the citizens' hands and not the government's: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you" (emphasis original).47 So, too, in Lincoln's second address the Union is on the defensive; it did not...

...identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. . . . "I am loathe to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though...

...legal order. Lincoln does, however (three sentences before his closing) specifically indicate that "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." Such talk of God and specific praise of Christianity can hardly be found in Lincoln's...