 | William Cothren - 1872 - 878 pages
...Lincoln closed his noble inaugural with the following words, alike firm and conciliatory : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not a sail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. 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.... | |
 | Malcolm McGregor Dana - 1873 - 438 pages
...closing his appeal to those striving to destroy the Federal Union, he used these words : " 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.... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - 1874 - 514 pages
...forsaken the favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our difficulties. "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 making yourselves the aggressors.... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - 1875 - 746 pages
...were completed without disaster or crime. In his inaugural address, President Lincoln said, " 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 yourselves being the aggressors.... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 pages
...that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the states." He concluded, " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. . . . We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...favoured land, are still competent to adjust in tho best way all our present difficulties. " 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.... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 pages
...that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the states." He concluded, " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. . . . We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. 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.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 pages
...while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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.... | |
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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... 
