 | Tim Nichols - Fiction - 2005 - 234 pages
...nation. He pronounced the Union "unbroken" and directly addressed those who had presumed to have left it: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it." Few believed that war would come. Few favored it. Few were indifferent about the issues and most favored... | |
 | Simone Payment - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...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....most 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 have... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...steps of the Capitol with its dome still incomplete: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it...' "I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies...The mystic chords of... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...secession. The two motives became bound up with each other: Inyour hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend it." (4.271) Without directly claiming... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...forsaken this favored land are still competent to 150 adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no 155 oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...this favored land are still competent to 150 adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no 155 oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while l shall have the most solemn one to... | |
 | Jason Porterfield - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...Confederate forces, but he fully intended to defend government buildings and properties in the South. "You can have no conflict, without being yourselves...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it," he told the South in his inaugural address. The Confederacy eventually fired the This December 20,... | |
 | Gary Jeffrey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 50 pages
...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... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...terms of intercourse, are again upon you. . . . "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." He closed with the lyrical assurance that "the mystic chords of memory . . . will yet swell the chorus... | |
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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... 
