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Page 292 - 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 the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
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| Title | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Part 2 Deparment of State publication |
| Author | United States. Department of State |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2008 |
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