 | Galusha Anderson - 1908 - 432 pages
...when, in his great inaugural address, 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 7 shall have the most solemn one ' to preserve, protect, and defend ' it; " we knew that, if neither... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1908 - 380 pages
...your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Your government will not assail you. You can have no conflict...government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to protect and defend it." The seceding states demanded that our government should give up all the forts,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1909 - 40 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 loth to close. We are... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1909 - 274 pages
...is the momentous Issue of civil war. The government will not assail you, unless yon first assail it. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it Ton can forbear the assault upon... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, William Peterfield Trent - 1909 - 690 pages
...collect the duties and imposts." Appealing to his dissatisfied fellow countrymen, he said, " You have 1i0 oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one fo preserve, protect, and defend it." , . FORT SUMTEK. 452. The Fall of Sumter. — One after another,... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1910 - 306 pages
...where it already existed, under constitutional sanction, and he closed with this touching appeal : — "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We are... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. 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 7 shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 760 pages
...24, quoted in Cincinnati Commercial, March 28, 1862. 4. A paraphrase of Lincoln's first inaugural: "You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it." Basier, H'orks of Lincoln,... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - 1981 - 320 pages
...the government. However, though he desired a peaceful solution, the matter was beyond his control: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.'"34 Thus, by the time of his... | |
 | James M. Woods - 1987 - 296 pages
...with a call for unity, brotherhood, and reconciliation: In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.'7 134 Historian Bruce Catton described Lincoln's inaugural address as containing "soft words of... | |
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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... 
