| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 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,...issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you.u You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
| David E. Johnson, Johnny Ray Johnson - History - 2004 - 260 pages
...countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," he said in his inaugural address. "You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." Historians have for decades rated Lincoln, mercilessly attacked in his day as "a country clown" and... | |
| Max J. Skidmore - Biography & Autobiography - 2014 - 420 pages
...should not be. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen," he proceeded to say in his Address, 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... | |
| Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...closing words of Lincoln's inaugural were recalled: "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."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate was not in Lincoln's interest. He needed the crisis... | |
| Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...own method of making decisions. He addressed Southerners: "In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail [attack] you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
| Tim Nichols - Fiction - 2005 - 234 pages
...nation. He pronounced the Union "unbroken" and directly addressed those who had presumed to have left it: "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... | |
| Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...needs to be no bloodshed on violence,” and he indicated that he would not be the one to declare wan: “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... | |
| Gary Jeffrey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 50 pages
...CAROLINA MILITIA ITS SURRENPER. WE WILL NEVER I SURRENDER/ j IT WAS TO BE PRESIPENT BUCHANAN'S LAST ACT. IN YOUR HANDS, MY DISSATISFIED FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN,...YOU CAN HAVE NO CONFLICT WITHOUT BEING YOURSELVES THE AGGRESSORS. 1 HAVE NO PURPOSE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO INTERFERE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY... | |
| Simone Payment - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. 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... | |
| Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...to be no bloodshed or violence," and he indicated that he would not be the one to declare war: "ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while l shall have... | |
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