 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...  McClure's Magazine ... - Page 2621899Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...fellowcountrymen, 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...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... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...fellowcountrymen, 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...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
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...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
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...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 regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ' preserve,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...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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