 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...  Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs - Page 294by United States. Department of State - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...He concluded : " 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. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...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 in heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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 the Government, while... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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 in Heaven to destroy the government, while... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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 the Government, while... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne 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 the Government, while... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...difficulties. " 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 regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...present difficulties. 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 the government, while... | |
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