 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
 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 766 pages
...the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...issue of civil war. The government will not assail yon ; you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 630 pages
...canses of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentons issue of civil war. The government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without heing yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1866 - 630 pages
...causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentons 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 government; while... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...* * * " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, are the momentous issues 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 government, while... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...of civil war. The Government will not nssail you You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while 7 shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defi-ud it. ' I am loth to close,' said... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...precedent " for other cases, can better be borne than could " the evils of a different practice." ^ ^ * * * "You have no oath registered in Heaven to " destroy the Government, while I have the " solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " I am loath to choose. We are not enemies... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 pages
...sought to avoid it;" and at the same ttme declared to the world concerning those who deprecated it, " the government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." REVOLUTION. ALL was now warlike. The Rubicon was passed. Bayonets... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 pages
...insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war : " 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... | |
 | George Lunt - United States - 1867 - 536 pages
...objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among people anywhere. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." It is difficult to conceive how much less than this could have been... | |
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