 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...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,...but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our honds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it....but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds ef affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect,...defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...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. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ' preserve,...but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have i strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...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. '" Thus he assumed his positions within the Constitution and the laws, and for the lawful continuance... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...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." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passions may have strained,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect,...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...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,...must not break our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...being yourselves tho 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 am loath to close. We arc 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... 
