 | 1877 - 226 pages
...under it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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 pages
...any length of warfare; they could be far better adjusted in Union than in enmity. He concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...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,... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...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 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,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1865 - 692 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Yon can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - 1865 - 636 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are Btill competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 pages
...before you. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-citizens, and not in mine, is the momentous question of civil war. The Government will not assail you....aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to oblige you to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one 'to preserve, protect,... | |
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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. 
