| 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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