...is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a 6rm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my disnalisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mint, is the momentous issue of civil...

...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...

...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, the momentous issue of civil war....

...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. The Constitution is a complex organism, dividing power and checking and balancing the various elements...

...result."130 Lincoln has already appealed in his First Inaugural Address to "the Almighty Ruler of nations," "Christianity," and "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Having already referred to the Creator as desirous for men to be self-governing, Lincoln concludes...

...Basler 1953 -55, 4:433-35. 79. Norton 1986,19-32,304-14. Cf. Lincoln, in his first inaugural, urging "firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" (Basler 1989 [1946], 588). On Lincoln's relation of religious providence and national unity, see also...

...tribunal, the American people." In that dark hour Lincoln's solution was civil religion pure and simple: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."24 But before the war had progressed very far, Lincoln evidently began to rethink these...

...Lord," Theodore Roosevelt once said of his candidacy; in his first inaugural, Abraham Lincoln invoked "intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" as a means for dealing with the crisis of secessionl.10 In the same vein, a progressive newspaper editor,...

...Inaugural Address, pp. 565-568 to Washington, DC His first inaugural address prompted the nation to have "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Again and again throughout the war he reverted to the idea that behind all the struggles and losses...

...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...