| Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in...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 - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...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... | |
| History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...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....conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
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