 | Ambrose Yoemans Moore - 1868 - 406 pages
...life of their fatherland : '"You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath 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,... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...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...destroy the government, while I shall have the most sol. emn one to preserve, protect and defend it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 1956 pages
...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not' assail you. You can hare no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors....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.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 pages
...it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; whilst I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. ' The Secessionists... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - 1877 - 974 pages
...not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no solemn oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protectand défendit. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1878 - 722 pages
...it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; whilst I shall have the most solemn one to * preserve, protect, and defend ' it." The Secessionists... | |
 | John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...THE NATIONAL NEED, — "A STRONG MAN" FACE 163 >73 184 192 * »GRANT AND THE TURNING TIDE OF WAR. " 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.' Ih — ABRAHAM LINCOLN : First Inaugural.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 830 pages
...you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered iu heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn oue to preserve, protect, and defend it." The enemies of the government would listen to no words of... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - 1884 - 574 pages
...mine" he said, "is the momentou. issue of civil war. The Goi vrn mcnt ?i.'/// not assail you. \\ni can have no conflict, without being yourselves the...Heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have tlie. most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.'" A few weeks after the inauguration of... | |
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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... 
