 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
 | Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna - Chile - 1866 - 202 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....most 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... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 764 pages
...clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, arid 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 772 pages
...show the origin and true canses of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and'not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 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....government ; , while I shall have the most solemn one to i preserve, protect, and defend ' it s;I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...the best way all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, arid not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to l preserve, protect, and defend it.7 "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1866 - 630 pages
...causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentons issue of civil war. The government will not assail...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | 1866 - 630 pages
...clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have tbe most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes slavery... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; whilst I shall have the^ most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close.*... | |
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