human
I wonder if those cheers were defiance after all?
gpt
But beyond what may be necessary for those objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere----
human
Good! Good! That means no coercion.
gpt
In _your_ hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in _mine_ is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail _you_ unless you _first_ assail _it_. You can have no conflict without yourselves being 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. _You_ can forbear the _assault_ upon it; _I_ can _not_ shrink from the _defense_ of it----