 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | James L. Abrahamson - 2000 - 228 pages
...University Press, 1970), 223, 222, and 219. CHAPTER NINE ABRAHAM LINCOLN, FORT SUMTER, AND THE UNION In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." — Abraham Lincoln1 Firing... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 pages
...Lincoln speaks of Christianity in his inaugural. [34] In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven, to destroy the government, while 1 shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. Lincoln reaffirms that there... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 pages
...way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while 1 shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | Alan T. Nolan - 2000 - 332 pages
...inaugural address was a closely reasoned plea for the Union. Approaching a conclusion, Lincoln said: You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it.1 As is well known, Lincoln was personally an intensely complicated man. I suggest that as president... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - 2001 - 280 pages
...immediate power, if it would, to change either. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2001 - 228 pages
...could understand the meaning of every word he said. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it. "I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | Albert Castel - 2001 - 284 pages
...Should they be attacked, they would be defended. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solenm one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." Lincoln thereupon took that... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 pages
...this great tribunal of the American people." But the burden of the future would rest on the South: "The Government will not assail you. You can have...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' " Four years later, chastened... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 420 pages
...should not be. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen," he proceeded to say in his Address, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it. The assurances did not matter.... | |
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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... 
