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" Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet 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 not in mine,... "
The Struggle of '72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political ... - Page 36
by Everett Chamberlin - 1872 - 572 pages
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...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...
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America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Mark A. Noll - Religion - 2002 - 637 pages
...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...
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Chaim Perelman

Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...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...
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From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press

Doug Underwood - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 378 pages
...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,...
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The Ashes That Still Remain

Thomas Koys - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...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...
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American Minute

William J. Federer - History - 2003 - 420 pages
...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...
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My Fellow Americans

Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...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,...
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What Makes America Great?: Land of Freedom, Honor, Justice, and Opportunity

Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...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...
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The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln

V. Neil Wyrick - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 132 pages
...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...
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Citizen Lincoln

Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...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...
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