...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....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy ihe government, while / shall have...

...Inaugural he spoke directly to the secessionist leaders: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have...

...March 1861, President Lincoln sounded a conciliatory tone: In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....will not assail you. You can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while...

...Lincoln, then fifty-one years of age, addressed an earnest appeal to the South, concluding it by saying: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." CHAPTER VI THE SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE...

...I have no inclination to do so." But in a veiled threat he reminded the rebellious southern states, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have...

...in his conclusion to the First Inaugural Address: In your hands, my Dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have...