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... Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 284by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 pages
...following words, alike firm and conciliatory : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to fi preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friencb. "We must... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ThQXGovernment will not assail you. Y<ra can have no conflict without being yourselves the...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 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....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 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. The Government will not assail you. You can havo no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You havo no oath registered in heaven to... | |
| Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...President closed hl» Address as follows: ttln your hands, my dissatisfied fellow. countrymen, and nut. In mine, is- the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can hove no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered In heaven to... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hnnds, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail y^u. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
| Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
..."In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow, countrymen, and nor in mine, is the momentous issue of civH war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have... | |
| Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...consideration. Tho President closed hfs Address as follows: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow, countrymen, and not. in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government w,ll not a>s,til \ou. You can have no conflict without being your•elves the aggressors. You have... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. "I sm loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends \Ve must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
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