 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 498 Seiten
...being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most 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... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 206 Seiten
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We arc not enemies, but friends. We must not bo enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 Seiten
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1865 - 436 Seiten
...oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; * Speech at Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 1S01. while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." That oath he kept with all honesty and fidelity. This honesty of principle inspired him/ with true... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 878 Seiten
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most 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... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - 1865 - 296 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " What more could they ask? With the positive pledge that the Government would not assail them, who... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 680 Seiten
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' • preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, bat friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - 1865 - 636 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 676 Seiten
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while s of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest a I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
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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... 
