 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 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 the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ' preserve,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - History - 1863 - 554 pages
...felt the want of any stirring appeal to the patriotism of the people. Still, the closing paragraphs, " I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...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... | |
 | 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...must not break our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield 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...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 - 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...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
