...destroy the Federal Union, he used these words : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I...

...1861): In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous question 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 I...

...put the onus for the breakup on the rebels. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you," he said. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." The document, at times,...

...circumstances. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous question of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no contact without being yourselves the aggressors. The Confederates chose war. On April 12, 1861, General...

...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil war....assail YOU. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I...

...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....assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /...

...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....assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors."62 Perpetuation of a stalemate was not in Lincoln's interest. He needed...

...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...

...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....assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." He closed with the lyrical assurance that "the mystic chords of memory...

...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....assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I...