 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...with simple truth, in his inaugural address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-citizens, in yours and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the govern* Quoted from memory. COMFORT IN TRIBULATION. 17 ment, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Slavery - 1863 - 30 pages
...virtue. "The Government" (he said to the Secessionists already in arms against lawful autHorty) — " the Government will not assail you. You can have no...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." And in mild but cogent terms he reminded them of his and their relative situations, and of the final... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...this great tribunal of the American people. By the frame of the Government under which we live, the same people have wisely given their public servants...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 Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 pages
...affections." I turn to still another brief passage. "My countrymen, one and all," said the incoming President, "think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ''preserve, protect, and defend it.' " Before he had called for... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have tho old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 pages
...anywhere. Mr. Lincoln closed his noble inaugural with the following words, alike firm and conciliatory : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to fi preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...His Inaugural Speech closed with the following eloquent appeal to the enemies of the country : — " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
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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 passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
