...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way,...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...

...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect,...

...under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...war. The Government will not' assail you. You can hare no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to...

...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken the favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous...

...upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the states." He concluded, " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...of civil war. The government will not assail you. . . . We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies." History has few such contrasts as this...

...upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the states." He concluded, " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...of civil war. The government will not assail you. . . . We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies." History has few such contrasts as this...

...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still 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 issues...

...present government as it came into his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You can have no conflict wiihout being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...

...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. T be government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without heing yom selves the aggressors....

...yet forsaken this land," he asserted in language which reminds us of the utterances of Washington, " are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties." Mr. Lincoln evidently intended to pursue a "peace policy," and not to interfere with slavery.* The...