 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...  The Civil War in America - Page 76by Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...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... | |
 | 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....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... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...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... | |
 | 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 to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. '" Thus he assumed his positions... | |
 | 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....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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no...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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...Speech closed with the following eloquent appeal to the enemies of the country : — " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...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... | |
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