 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...resolution of the crisis. Speaking to the South near the conclusion of his address, Lincoln added, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war." Then, reaching out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal - Business & Economics - 2011 - 256 pages
...questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you."48 He closed with a passionate, poetic plea: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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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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... 
