 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 764 pages
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied felltfw-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend ' it. ^1 am loth to close. •\\c are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...government ; , while I shall have the most solemn one to i preserve, protect, and defend ' it s;I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, arid not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 772 pages
...show the origin and true canses of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and'not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | 1866 - 630 pages
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have tbe most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes slavery... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...the best way all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, arid not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to l preserve, protect, and defend it.7 "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1866 - 630 pages
...causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentons issue of civil war. The government will not assail...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; whilst I shall have the^ most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close.*... | |
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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... 
