 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no confli6t without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " What more could they ask? With the positive pledge that the Government would not assail them, who... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 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...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 Lathrop - Illinois - 1865 - 268 pages
...your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." And they had all confidence in the promises of the President, that the "laws of the Union should be... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 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...have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and de fend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without heing yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government;...have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend1' it. . I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 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...destroy the government ; while I shall have the most tolemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...conflict withont being yourselves the aggressors. Той have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy tho Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am leth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. ' We must not be enemies. Though, passion may have... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered i# heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and de feud " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 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 Ibe most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I MU loth to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 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...of memory, stretching from every battle-field 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,... 
