...the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. " l9 Lincoln ended his address saying, "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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...

...March 1861, President Lincoln sounded a conciliatory tone: In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....will not assail you. You can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while...

...Lincoln, then fifty-one years of age, addressed an earnest appeal to the South, concluding it by saying: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." CHAPTER VI THE SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE...

...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...

...Republican, and National Union. During his first inaugural address on Monday, March 4, 1861 he said: Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. During his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865 he said: With malice toward...

...desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it." — Abraham Lincoln "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land" would see the nation through its "present difficulty." — Abraham Lincoln — from his first inaugural...