...is still no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, mv dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, are the momentous issues of civil war. The government...

...Lincoln's solution was civil religion pure and simple: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."24 But before the war had progressed very far, Lincoln evidently began to rethink these...

...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. In your hands, my dissatisf1ed fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourself the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall...

...candidacy; in his first inaugural, Abraham Lincoln invoked "intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" as a means for dealing with the crisis of secessionl.10 In the same vein, a progressive newspaper editor,...

...Inaugural Address, pp. 565-568 to Washington, DC His first inaugural address prompted the nation to have "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Again and again throughout the war he reverted to the idea that behind all the struggles and losses...

...President Abraham Lincoln stated in his I86I Inaugural: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty." American Minute January 2I JLJ.G produced epic films in Hollywood for almost five decades and started...

...Instead, he put the onus for the breakup on the rebels. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you," he said. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." The document, at times,...

...circumstances. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous question of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no contact without being yourselves the aggressors. The Confederates chose war. On April 12, 1861, General...

...subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time... Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty...! am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have...

...closing words of Lincoln's inaugural were recalled: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate was not in Lincoln's interest. He needed the crisis to come...