 | 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...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 passions may have strained,... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...fellow-citizens, in yours 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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 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...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, it must not break... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 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...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, it must not break... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail y^u. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...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, it must not break... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 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...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,... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 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...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
...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.' " Before he had called for a soldier, before he had the power to give an order with reference to a... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ThQXGovernment will not assail you. Y<ra can have no conflict without being yourselves the...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,... | |
 | 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...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, it must not break... | |
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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... 
