 | Louis Charles Wilson - 1895 - 152 pages
...upon the watchtower sound a note of alarm. During the war of '61 Mr. Lincoln said in his inaugural: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty." This tells of the faith of this great man. But why did he not identify himself with the... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 858 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... | |
 | Carolyn Lawton Harrell - 1997 - 136 pages
...Jones Jr. to his father, 5 March 1861, quoted in Myers, Children of Pride, 655. authority. . . . Inyour hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ... We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must... | |
 | 1998
...bleak turmoil of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln conveyed similar sentiments by calling Americans to "a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Almost a century later, Harry Truman emphasized the need for God's help in making decisions: "when... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 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... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 pages
...views, such public statements as that found in the First Inaugural Address (Collected Works, 4: 271): "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." See also ibid., 5: 497-98, 7: 48, 169. President of the Confederacy, said of Lincoln that... | |
 | Ida M. Tarbell - 1999 - 568 pages
...is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a 6rm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my disnalisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mint, is the momentous issue... | |
 | Lynn Nelson - 1999 - 268 pages
...overthrow it. ... My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. . . . I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel, Thomas J. McInerney - 2000 - 416 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, the momentous issue... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 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. The Constitution is a complex organism, dividing power and checking and balancing the various... | |
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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,... 
