such of you are now dissatisfied, still have the old constitution, unimpaired, and on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it. while the new administration will have no immediate power if it would, to change either. one section of the country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. this is the only substantial dispute. why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? is there any better? or, equal hope in the world? in your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is a momentous issue of civil war. the government will not assail you. you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. you have no boats registered in heaven to destroy the government, while i had -- charlotte the most solemn one, to preserve, protect, and defend. we are not enemies. but friends. we must not be enemies. though passion may have strained, it must not great our bonds of affection. the mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and pa