 | James Penny Boyd - 1884 - 900 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." cive act. They began a bombardment of the fort, April 13, 1861, and on April 14, after a fire of thirty... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - 2003 - 186 Seiten
...being yourself 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... | |
 | Kenneth C. Davis - 2009 - 717 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... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - 2003 - 367 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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 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... | |
 | David Williamson - 2004 - 460 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." It was, of course, too late. The seven seceded states now claimed that all seized Federal installations... | |
 | David E. Johnson, Johnny Ray Johnson - 2004 - 260 Seiten
...said in his inaugural address. "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." Historians have for decades rated Lincoln, mercilessly attacked in his day as "a country clown" and... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 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." The South responded sharply. "It is our wisest policy to accept [the speech] as a declaration of war,"... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 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 loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 420 Seiten
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it. The assurances did not matter. Southern leaders had come to insist not only that slavery prevail in... | |
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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... 
