 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...of the finest pieces 409 of rhetoric ever penned: 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... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 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 the government, while I shall have... | |
 | Eric Eckelman - Nuclear warfare - 2006 - 278 pages
...Lincoln even warned the South in his Inaugural Address. And, I quote: government will not assail you ...You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy...solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it...'." "So, he was resolved to save the entire Union?" a man asked. "I think that would be safe to say. Along... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...the use of force, and would respond accordingly: "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... | |
 | Business & Economics - 290 pages
...inaugural address, he concisely warned the south: "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 have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 150 pages
...in March of 1861, Lincoln urged the Confederates not to start a civil war, saying they had no right "to destroy the government, while I shall have the...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." But when, in April, Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, a Union garrison off the coast CHARLESTON MERCURY... | |
 | Sarah Luria - Architecture - 2006 - 250 pages
...in the citizens' hands and not the government's: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you" (emphasis original).47 So, too, in Lincoln's second address the Union is on the defensive; it did not... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
