 | 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... | |
 | George McKenna - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 454 pages
...Inaugural he spoke directly to the secessionist leaders: "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... | |
 | John Wesley Dean - Political Science - 2007 - 364 pages
...security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection." He closed this address by noting, " You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' " Is there any time when a president can halt the government in its additional background information... | |
 | Clint Johnson - History - 2007 - 288 pages
...March 1861, President Lincoln sounded a conciliatory tone: In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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... | |
 | J. F. C. Fuller - History - 2007 - 436 pages
...Lincoln, then fifty-one years of age, addressed an earnest appeal to the South, concluding it by saying: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." CHAPTER VI THE SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE... | |
 | Paul Calore - History - 2014 - 306 pages
...I have no inclination to do so." But in a veiled threat he reminded the rebellious southern states, "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... | |
 | Phillip Shaw Paludan - Political ethics - 2008 - 98 pages
...paragraph a sharp distinction between his moral situation and that of his dissatisfied countrymen: "You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." Pennsylvania Avenue past the crowds, the riflemen watching from rooftops. Buchanan had a different... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...in his conclusion to the First Inaugural Address: 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... | |
 | Richard Baggett - 2008 - 308 pages
...declared that the states did not have the constitutional right to secede. His very words were, "You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it."45 The War began as South Carolina fired on federal troops at Fort Sumter. It would prove to be... | |
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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... 
