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 | 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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have... | |
 | 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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate was not in Lincoln's interest. He needed the crisis... | |
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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... 
