 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 264 էջ
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 578 էջ
...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 'i I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 էջ
...precedent " for other cases, can better be borne than could " the evils of a different practice." ^ ^ * * * "You have no oath registered in Heaven to " destroy the Government, while I have the " solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " I am loath to choose. We are not enemies... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 568 էջ
...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. ^1 am loth to close. •\\c are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna - 1866 - 208 էջ
...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. •<*J..' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 էջ
...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...registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 554 էջ
...still, small voice, scarcely audible and less heeded, Moating over the disturbed elements, saying: ''You can have no conflict without being yourselves the...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one "to preserve, protect, and defend it." If the Almighty ruler of nations,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 էջ
...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...registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loath to close. We... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 616 էջ
...yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. ' ' I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 598 էջ
...yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
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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 can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy... 
