 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 pages
...result."130 Lincoln has already appealed in his First Inaugural Address to "the Almighty Ruler of nations," "Christianity," and "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Having already referred to the Creator as desirous for men to be self-governing, Lincoln concludes... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 2001 - 785 pages
...Constitution expressly enjoins me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all of the States. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war." 167 Undeterred by the president's words, the Congress of the newly organized Confederate States of... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - 2001 - 388 pages
...Basler 1953 -55, 4:433-35. 79. Norton 1986,19-32,304-14. Cf. Lincoln, in his first inaugural, urging "firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" (Basler 1989 [1946], 588). On Lincoln's relation of religious providence and national unity, see also... | |
 | 2002 - 328 pages
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 | Abraham Lincoln - 2002 - 260 pages
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 | Andrew S. Weeks - 2002 - 216 pages
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 | Mark A. Noll - 2002 - 637 pages
...tribunal, the American people." In that dark hour Lincoln's solution was civil religion pure and simple: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 1110 pages
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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,... 
