On the recordMarch 4, 1861
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Source
gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”
Editor's note · Context
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln placed the responsibility for initiating conflict squarely on the seceding states.
Share
More from Abraham Lincoln
Apr 11, 1865
The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?
Apr 11, 1865
As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
Apr 11, 1865
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.
Apr 11, 1865
He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget: "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no…
Other voices in this conversation
