 | 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... | |
 | Cole Christian Kingseed - 2004 - 232 pages
...first move; that option resided with the South. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.'"6 Lincoln had drawn a line in the sand from which he would not retreat. He had his answer on April... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 421 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.... | |
 | 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
...to be no bloodshed or violence," and he indicated that he would not be the one to declare war: "ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while l shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.'" And choice (E) is incorrect... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 pages
...secession. The two motives became bound up with each other: Inyour hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend it." (4.271) Without directly claiming... | |
 | Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal - 2011 - 256 pages
...questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you."48 He closed with a passionate, poetic plea: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to reserve, protect, and defend it. ... We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 pages
...the use of force, and would respond accordingly: "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."95 At Seward's suggestion,... | |
 | Norman Schofield - 2006
...hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war ... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. 11 Iz See Fehrenbacher (1989^... | |
 | George McKenna - 2007 - 454 pages
...Inaugural he spoke directly to the secessionist leaders: "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."65 Lincoln, a political activist... | |
 | James Oakes - 2007 - 366 pages
...CW, vol. 4, pp. 268-69. war was entirely its own. "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."8 Lincoln's words were so blunt,... | |
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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... 
