 | Phillip Shaw Paludan - Political ethics - 2008 - 98 pages
...paragraph a sharp distinction between his moral situation and that of his dissatisfied countrymen: "You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." Pennsylvania Avenue past the crowds, the riflemen watching from rooftops. Buchanan had a different... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...in his conclusion to the First Inaugural Address: In your hands, my Dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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... | |
 | Richard Baggett - 2008 - 308 pages
...declared that the states did not have the constitutional right to secede. His very words were, "You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it."45 The War began as South Carolina fired on federal troops at Fort Sumter. It would prove to be... | |
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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... 
