 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...not have acted so. Lincoln, it is true, had declared that he would take no provocative step—" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," and the risk which he would have taken by overruling that day the opinion of the bulk of his Cabinet... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 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, and...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves... | |
 | 1862 - 200 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. " I am loth to close; we are not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 pages
...this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loth to close. We... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ' preserve,... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...Congress should not meddle with the domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;... | |
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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... 
