 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 pages
...for 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...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,... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...improper word. He closed his inaugural by saying : "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I have a most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. "I am loath to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 116 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend " it. I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | 1899 - 652 pages
...is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you unless you first assail it. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." You can forbear the attault... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1894 - 526 pages
...you." He pleaded for peace in a strain of equal tenderness and dignity, and in closing he said : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have a most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." This speech profoundly affected the public... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - 1894 - 572 pages
...closes as follows : — In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is i In: momentous issue of civil war. The government will...shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, ;uid defend it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though... | |
 | Robert M. King - 1894 - 348 pages
...— First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. XVI "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1896 - 388 pages
...hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war . . . You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." He gathered about him a cabinet of able... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 820 pages
...forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust hi the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while 1 shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." be enemies. Though passion... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 268 pages
...your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Your government will not assail you. You can have no conflict...government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to protect and defend it." The Confederate States demanded that the government should give up all the... | |
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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... 
