...would not have acted so. Lincoln, it is true, had declared that he would take no provocative step—" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," and the risk which he would have taken by overruling that day the opinion of the bulk of his Cabinet...

...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...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...

...you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute , there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...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...

...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands,...

...admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...firm reliance on Him who has. never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your...

...terms of intercourse are again before you.'? There is no reason whatever for acting precipitately. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties." President Lincoln, therefore, does not regard the Union as broken. He vows to maintain it peaceably,...

...terms of intercourse are again before you." There is no reason whatever for acting precipitately. " Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties." President Lincoln, therefore, does not regard the Union as broken. He vows to maintain it peaceably,...

...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...