...Then, earnestly and eloquently, "While you have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. ... We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection....

...addressed those who had presumed to have left it: "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." Few believed that war would come. Few favored it. Few were indifferent about the issues and most favored...

...poetically, the idea Seward's, the language his own: 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 may have...

...indicated that he would not be the one to declare wan: “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.” And choice (E) is incorrect because both expressed a willingness to accept their positions of leadership....

...questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. 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 loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have...

...steps of the Capitol with its dome still incomplete: "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...The mystic chords of...

...secession. The two motives became bound up with each other: Inyour hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend it." (4.271) Without directly claiming...

...Confederate forces, but he fully intended to defend government buildings and properties in the South. "You can have no conflict, without being yourselves...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it," he told the South in his inaugural address. The Confederacy eventually fired the This December 20,...

...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no 155 oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while l shall have the most solemn one to...

...terms of intercourse, are again upon you. . . . "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." He closed with the lyrical assurance that "the mystic chords of memory . . . will yet swell the chorus...