 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the hest way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 pages
...for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who lias never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 424 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no smgle good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, ia the momentous issues of civil... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pages
...save the nation. In his inaugural address he expressed the hope that impending war could be avoided by "intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Though deeply felt, these were abstract invocations of a Higher Power to save a society; he now needed... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...be their own rulers, having. ..resigned their Government into the hands of the eminent tribunal.... Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.61 In 1 861, President Abraham Lincoln addressed the New Jersey State Senate: I am exceedingly... | |
 | 1998 - 424 pages
...bleak turmoil of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln conveyed similar sentiments by calling Americans to "a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Almost a century later, Harry Truman emphasized the need for God's help in making decisions: "when... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 pages
...views, such public statements as that found in the First Inaugural Address (Collected Works, 4: 271): "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." See also ibid., 5: 497-98, 7: 48, 169. President of the Confederacy, said of Lincoln that "the Union... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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... | |
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If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored... 
