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... Abraham Lincoln - Página 50por John Carroll Power - 1873 - 352 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Prescott Holmes - 1899 - 314 páginas
...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 an oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve,... | |
| Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 páginas
...not. As Fort Sumter was reduced to rubble, the closing words of Lincoln's inaugural were recalled: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,...issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate... | |
| David E. Johnson, Johnny Ray Johnson - 2004 - 260 páginas
...long ago forgotten by most Americans. emerged, with the courage and determination to save the nation. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," he said in his inaugural address. "You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,... | |
| Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 páginas
...describing his own method of making decisions. He addressed Southerners: "In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail [attack] you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered... | |
| Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 420 páginas
...should not be. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen," he proceeded to say in his Address, 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... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 páginas
...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. The government will not assail YOU. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. YOU have no oath registered... | |
| Larry D. Mansch - 2005 - 246 páginas
...of calm and cheerful confidence."9 He concluded poetically, the idea Seward's, the language his own: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,...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... | |
| Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 páginas
...issues in his inaugural speech, delivered on the steps of the Capitol with its dome still incomplete: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,...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... | |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 páginas
...cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. . . . "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,...issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." He closed with the lyrical... | |
| Herman Cain - 2005 - 241 páginas
...his January 1861 Inaugural Address, Lincoln sent this warning to the Southern slave-owning states: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,...and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
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