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... President Lincoln; Self-pourtrayed - Page 39by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We are... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. fn your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not... | |
| Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hunde, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have Ibe most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I MU loth to close. We are not... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...way, all our present difficulty "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, U the momentous issue of civil war. The government will...registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most tolemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. " I am loth to close. We are... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is tbo momentous issue of civil war. The Government will...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loath to close. We are... | |
| Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are Btill competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Yon can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 864 pages
...difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issues of civil war. The Government will not assail you....registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and de fend " it. I am loth to close. We are... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...thia favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have... | |
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