 | David Edwin Harrell Jr., Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...resolution of the crisis. Speaking to the South near the conclusion of his address, Lincoln added, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war." Then, reaching out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - 2005 - 886 pages
...Lincoln referred to "the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice . . ." and "... Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land . . ." Choice (A) is wrong because Lincoln stated, "One section of our country believes slavery is... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 2005 - 444 pages
..."Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never forsaken this public land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." 38 With rare exceptions—most notably, the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 pages
..."perpetual" condition of unity among the states— sustained, as he says in the First Inaugural, by "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" (4.271). True, he conceded, the political union of the states gives the states constitutional protections... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 2005 - 444 pages
...his first inaugural address, Lincoln pleaded with the South to reconcile in overtly sectarian terms: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never forsaken this public land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...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... | |
 | Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 pages
...position on slavery was right, God would convince federal officials to make the necessary adjustments. "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land," he insisted, could best resolve "our present difficulty."256 Despite three years of war, Lincoln told... | |
 | Vanessa B. Beasley - 2006 - 318 pages
...displayed in our favor." 21 Others spoke of God's "guardianship" and "watchful providence," called for a "firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land," and invoked the "continuance of His protection and grace for the future." 22 The notion of a chosen... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 pages
...the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. " l9 Lincoln ended his address saying, "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 pages
...all, think calmly and well, upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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... | |
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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,... 
