 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail y^u. 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." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 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...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 Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. "We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government...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 strained,... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...civil war. The Government w,ll not a>s,til \ou. You can have no conflict without being your•elves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it' 1 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 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...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. 1 I am loath to close. We are not .enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 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...solemn one to ''preserve, protect, and defend it.' " Before he had called for a soldier, before he had the power to give an order with reference to a... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can havo no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You havo no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government...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 strained,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 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 fi preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friencb. "We must... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the...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... | |
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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,... 
