 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...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...government ; , while I shall have the most solemn one to i preserve, protect, and defend ' it s;I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...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...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to l preserve, protect, and defend it.7 "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
..." You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered iu Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have...most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it *• 1 am loth to close. "We are not enemies, but friends. AVe must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 764 pages
...uation, and it was thus he conjured them to think well upon the fatal step they were about to take: " 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 cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | 1866 - 630 pages
...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 government ; while I shall have tbe most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes slavery... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...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...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 pages
...government will not assail you. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...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 strained,... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 616 pages
...government will not assail you. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...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 strained,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 pages
...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...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1877 - 554 pages
...Moating over the disturbed elements, saying: ''You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors; you have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one "to preserve, protect, and defend it." If the Almighty ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North,... | |
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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,... 
