 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...  Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs - Page 292by United States. Department of State - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...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...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered...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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...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...to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...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 the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1862 - 200 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...of civil war. The Government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. '" Thus he assumed his positions within the Constitution and the laws, and for the lawful continuance... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall...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... | |
 | 1897 - 678 pages
...momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered...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 passions may have... | |
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