| Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
| Jeremy D. Bailey - Political Science - 2007 - 275 pages
...to draw a line in the sand to confederates. "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." Rather than serving as a contract with which a president may be bound or even entrapped, the oath became... | |
| 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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have... | |
| 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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy ihe government, while / shall have... | |
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