 | 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 mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 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 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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 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 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.... | |
 | 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 mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.... | |
 | 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 mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 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 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.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 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 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.... | |
 | 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 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.... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...Congress should not meddle with the domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " 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 yourselves being the aggressors.... | |
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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... 
