| Clint Johnson - 2007 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
| J. F. C. Fuller - 2007 - 436 páginas
...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... | |
| Paul Calore - 2014 - 306 páginas
...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... | |
| Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 páginas
...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... | |
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