 | 1877 - 226 sider
...immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 sider
...adjusted in Union than in enmity. He concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 sider
...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....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 enemies, but friends.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 sider
...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....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... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 sider
...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....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 sider
...domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 sider
...with simple truth, in his inaugural address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-citizens, in yours and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the govern* Quoted from memory. COMFORT IN TRIBULATION. 17 ment, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1863 - 30 sider
...virtue. "The Government" (he said to the Secessionists already in arms against lawful autHorty) — " the Government will not assail you. You can have no...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." And in mild but cogent terms he reminded them of his and their relative situations, and of the final... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 sider
...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 - 1864 - 514 sider
...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... | |
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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... 
