N your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. the government will not assail you. you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while i shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." ... - president abraham lincoln - when president lincoln made this speech, which step toward civil war had already taken place?

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Brittany Shepherd

28 June, 12:58

N your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. the government will not assail you. you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while i shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." ... - president abraham lincoln - when president lincoln made this speech, which step toward civil war had already taken place?

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Julius Sexton · Answer 1

On March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln spoke these words in his first inaugural address, seven Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) had already left the Union, and the Civil War was about to begin.