 | Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 pages
...the momentous issue of the 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... | |
 | Gore Vidal - 1999 - 1032 pages
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 | John Grafton - 2000 - 114 pages
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 | Dick W. Zylstra - 2000 - 722 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2000 - 106 pages
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 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel, Thomas J. McInerney - 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... | |
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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... 
