 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...under it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...would not have acted so. Lincoln, it is true, had declared that he would take no provocative step—" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," and the risk which he would have taken by overruling that day the opinion of the bulk of his Cabinet... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 618 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold tht light side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...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... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands,... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single good cause for precipitate action. " Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
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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... 
