 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 Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 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 am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 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 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 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....solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. fn 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 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 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....solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We arc not enemies, but friends. We must not bo enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 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 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 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 am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pages
...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 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. "VVe must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is tbo momentous issue of civil war. The Government will...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. Wo must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issues of civil war. The Government will not assail you....solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I nm loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
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