| JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 Seiten
...with simple truth, in his inaugural address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-citizens, in yours and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the govern* Quoted from memory. COMFORT IN TRIBULATION. 17 ment, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1863 - 30 Seiten
...virtue. "The Government" (he said to the Secessionists already in arms against lawful autHorty) — " the Government will not assail you. You can have no...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." And in mild but cogent terms he reminded them of his and their relative situations, and of the final... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1863 - 598 Seiten
...anywhere. Mr. Lincoln closed his noble inaugural with the following word?, alike firm and conciliatory: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the... | |
| 1897 - 678 Seiten
...Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves... | |
| David Brainerd Williamson - 1864 - 208 Seiten
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| William Darrah Kelley - 1864 - 92 Seiten
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to ''preserve, protect, and defend it.' " Before he had called for a soldier, before he had the power to give an order with reference to a... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 Seiten
...His Inaugural Speech closed with the following eloquent appeal to the enemies of the country : — " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 Seiten
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Robert Livingston Stanton - 1864 - 576 Seiten
...sentences completely disprove the charge under consideration. The President closed his Address as follows: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. 1 I am loath to close. We are not .enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1864 - 546 Seiten
...anywhere. Mr. Lincoln closed his noble inaugural with the following words, alike firm and conciliatory : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to fi preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friencb. "We must... | |
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