 | 1866 - 630 pages
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have tbe most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes slavery... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 264 pages
...deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...the best way all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, arid not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to l preserve, protect, and defend it.7 "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1866 - 624 pages
...it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; whilst I shall have the^ most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close.*... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1866 - 766 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail yon ; you can have no conflict without being yourselves...shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, mid defeud it. " One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 pages
...said : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, we the momentous issues of civil war. The Government will not assail you You...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. ' 1 am loth to close,' said he... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 pages
...countrymen, and not in mine, arc the momentous issues of civil war. The Government will not nssail you You can have no conflict without being yourselves...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while 7 shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defi-ud it. ' I am loth to close,' said... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 pages
...precedent " for other cases, can better be borne than could " the evils of a different practice." ^ ^ * * * "You have no oath registered in Heaven to " destroy the Government, while I have the " solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " I am loath to choose. We are not enemies... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...civil war, — the government will not assail yon. " You can have no conflict without being 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 pages
...peace ; so that the words, plain and simple as they are, are full of deep and melancholy music : " You can have no conflict without being yourselves...government, while I shall have the most solemn one, to 4preserve, protect and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not... | |
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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... 
