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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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... - Page 103
by Frank Crosby - 1865 - 476 pages
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The Lincoln-Douglas Senatorial Debates of 1858: A Primary Source Investigation

Jason Porterfield - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...government buildings and properties in the South. "You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it," he told the South in his inaugural address. The Confederacy eventually fired the This December 20,...
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Awesome Creations and Evolution: New Age Book of Revelations

Kamran Pirnahad - 2005 - 334 pages
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / have the most...
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Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - History - 2005 - 284 pages
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...terms of intercourse, are again upon you. . . . "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." He closed with the lyrical assurance that "the mystic chords of memory . . . will...
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Abraham Lincoln, President-elect: The Four Critical Months from Election to ...

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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have...
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They Think You're Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and what Republicans ...

Herman Cain - Political Science - 2005 - 241 pages
...your 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...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." 1863: President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that "all persons held...
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The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words

Ronald Cedric White - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 448 pages
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...steps of the Capitol with its dome still incomplete: "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. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have...
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