...inaugural address, he concisely warned the south: "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 have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one...

...position on slavery was right, God would convince federal officials to make the necessary adjustments. "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land," he insisted, could best resolve "our present difficulty."256 Despite three years of war, Lincoln told...

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...in the citizens' hands and not the government's: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you" (emphasis original).47 So, too, in Lincoln's second address the Union is on the defensive; it did not...

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...all, think calmly and well, upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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...

...identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. . . . "I am loathe to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though...

...legal order. Lincoln does, however (three sentences before his closing) specifically indicate that "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." Such talk of God and specific praise of Christianity can hardly be found in Lincoln's...

...the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. " l9 Lincoln ended his address saying, "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...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...