 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 242 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." government should give up all the forts, arsenals, and public property within... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 528 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. Vou can have no conflict without being yourselves the...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 pages
...itself. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, are the momentous issues of civil war. The Government will not assail you....oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, whilst I shall have the most solemn one to " Preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loath to close.... | |
 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 256 pages
...forsaken his favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. _ In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...the government, while I shall have the most solemn oath to " preserve, protect and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the st 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." l ^"l am loth to close. We... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 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." l I am loth to close. We are... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1899 - 136 pages
...sentences, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, are the momentous issues of civil war. The government will not assail you....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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 122 pages
...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can hav« no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." 1 I am loth to close. We are... | |
 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 382 pages
...forsaken his favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...the government, while I shall have the most solemn oath to " preserve, protect and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We... | |
 | William Alfred Peffer - 1900 - 168 pages
...these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force ngainst or among the people anywhere. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect and defend it.' " April 12th, the war began... | |
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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... 
