 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1988 - 320 pages
...head off civil war, Lincoln's first inaugural spoke directly to his "dissatisfied fellowcountrymen." 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." 4 Realizing that reading and... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 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 / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | James Hugh Toner - 1992 - 186 pages
...his southern countrymen, as he assumed his high office, that the government would not attack them: "You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy...most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it."38 Kennedy would not do something; Lincoln could not forbear doing something — both in the name... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 pages
..."I now reiterate these sentiments"; "I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations"; "You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it." Direct and forthright throughout,... | |
 | William Hanchett - 1994 - 172 pages
...secession was anarchy, Lincoln said. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen," he concluded, "and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." The Civil War began five weeks... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 240 pages
...southern people, as he had done so often since 1854: "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 loth to close. We are... | |
 | Halford Ross Ryan - 1995 - 428 pages
...is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you, unless you 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. You can forbear the assault... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 pages
...present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.... 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.36 After the November election,... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - 1997
...February 11, 1861] ULTIMATE JUSTICE OF THE PEOPLE . . . 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... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 pages
...hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," I said. "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. "I am loth to close. We are... | |
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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... 
