 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 598 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You can 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 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. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 554 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." If the Almighty ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 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... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 616 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You can 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... | |
 | 1867 - 894 Seiten
...yourselvei the aggressors. " You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while 1 shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." • To this touching, to this generous appeal, the men of the South answered, by giving the signal... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 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... | |
 | 1868 - 422 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 loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1869 - 384 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You can 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... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1870 - 698 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You can 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... | |
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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... 
