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... Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs - Page 83by United States. Department of State - 1866Full view - About this book
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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 passion may have... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
| History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you....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... | |
| 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, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
| Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...of civil war. The Government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. '" Thus he assumed his positions within the Constitution and the laws, and for the lawful continuance... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall...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... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you....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... | |
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