...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the host way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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...

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

...closing words of Lincoln's inaugural were recalled: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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...

...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...

...CAROLINA MILITIA ITS SURRENPER. WE WILL NEVER I SURRENDER/ j IT WAS TO BE PRESIPENT BUCHANAN'S LAST ACT. IN YOUR HANDS, MY DISSATISFIED FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN,...CONFLICT WITHOUT BEING YOURSELVES THE AGGRESSORS. 1 HAVE NO PURPOSE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO INTERFERE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IN THE STATES...

...nation. He pronounced the Union "unbroken" and directly addressed those who had presumed to have left it: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn...

...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn...

...needs to be no bloodshed on violence,” and he indicated that he would not be the one to declare wan: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn...

...to be no bloodshed or violence," and he indicated that he would not be the one to declare war: "ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while l shall have the most solemn...

...poetically, the idea Seward's, the language his own: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn...