| United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 páginas
...origin and true causes of the war : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| George Lunt - 1867 - 536 páginas
...against or among people anywhere. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." It is difficult to conceive how much less than this could have been said by the Chief Magistrate, under... | |
| Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 616 páginas
...closing with these memorable words : "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 páginas
...sons. He concluded hy saying : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one... | |
| John William Draper - 1868 - 628 páginas
...despotism is all that is left. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen," he added," not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." The inauguration over, Buchanan rode with Lincoln Buchanameavesthe to the presidential residence —... | |
| John William Draper - 1868 - 630 páginas
...is all that is left. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen," he added, " not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." The inauguration over, Buchanan rode with Lincoln BachMmnieavesthe to the presidential residence —... | |
| 1868 - 422 páginas
...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...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 páginas
...deep and melancholy music : " 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 the most solemn one, to 4preserve, protect and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not... | |
| Ambrose Yoemans Moore - 1868 - 406 páginas
...life of their fatherland : '"You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
| Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 páginas
...Lincoln's inaugural were recalled: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government...can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate was not in Lincoln's interest. He needed the crisis to come... | |
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