 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
...civH war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...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,... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can hove no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered In heaven...solemn one to * preserve, protect, and defend it' I am loath to close. We arc 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 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 the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 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 straine 1, it must not break... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 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... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 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 - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in a'.. a-, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail yi1*. 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... | |
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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... 
