 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...  The Massachusetts register. Serial no., 94 - Page 120by Massachusetts register - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Luria - Architecture - 2006 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006 - 3 pages
...hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war ... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. 11 Iz See Fehrenbacher (1989^... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy ihe government, while... | |
 | James Oakes - African American abolitionists - 2007 - 366 pages
...CW, vol. 4, pp. 268-69. war was entirely its own. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | George McKenna - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 454 pages
...Inaugural he spoke directly to the secessionist leaders: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | J. F. C. Fuller - History - 2007 - 436 pages
...fifty-one years of age, addressed an earnest appeal to the South, concluding it by saying: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and 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... | |
 | Nelson Lankford - History - 2007 - 340 pages
...enduring, indissoluble Union and meant to uphold it. Toward the end, he again reminded southerners that "the government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors."26 In sum, he tried to have it both ways: he disavowed the use of... | |
 | Paul Calore - History - 2014 - 306 pages
...inclination to do so." But in a veiled threat he reminded the rebellious southern states, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...in his conclusion to the First Inaugural Address: In your hands, my Dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | Joe Wheeler - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 313 pages
...he had to have prayed, "God, You are all I have to see us through." INAUGURATION DAY, MARCH 4, 1861 You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." — ABRAHAM LINCOLN According to Lincoln's... | |
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