...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, the momentous issue...

...to defend the Union. His inaugural address ended: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....will not assail you. You can have no conflict without your being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I...

...onus of dissolution upon the shoulders of he Confederacy. In his inauguration speech, Lincoln said, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," and, "You can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors." At the same time, he said...

...responsibility for any aggressive moves, Lincoln added: 'ln your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....not assail you. You can have no conflict, without yourselves being the aggressors.' This statement left deliberately murky what Lincoln meant by 'occupy...

...Constitution expressly enjoins me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all of the States. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war." 167 Undeterred by the president's words, the Congress of the newly organized Confederate States of...

...tribunal, the American people." In that dark hour Lincoln's solution was civil religion pure and simple: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."24 But before the war had progressed very far, Lincoln evidently began to rethink these...

...Lord," Theodore Roosevelt once said of his candidacy; in his first inaugural, Abraham Lincoln invoked "intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" as a means for dealing with the crisis of secessionl.10 In the same vein, a progressive newspaper editor,...

...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...