 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
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. 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... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - Biography & Autobiography - 2014 - 420 pages
...should not be. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen," he proceeded to say in his Address, 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... | |
 | Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...closing words of Lincoln's inaugural were recalled: "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."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate was not in Lincoln's interest. He needed... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...own method of making decisions. He addressed Southerners: "In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail [attack] you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
 | Gary Jeffrey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 50 pages
...SURRENPER. WE WILL NEVER I SURRENDER/ j IT WAS TO BE PRESIPENT BUCHANAN'S LAST ACT. 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. 1 HAVE NO PURPOSE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO INTERFERE WITH THE INSTITUTION... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...bloodshed or violence," and he indicated that he would not be the one to declare war: "ln 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... | |
 | Simone Payment - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. 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... | |
 | Tim Nichols - Fiction - 2005 - 234 pages
...the Union "unbroken" and directly addressed those who had presumed to have left it: "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... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...poetically, the idea Seward's, the language his 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... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...secession. The two motives became bound up with each other: Inyour 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... | |
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