 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...States, that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, and their peace, and per not in MINE is the momentous issue of civil war. The...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." With this last paragraph Mr.... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, and their peace, and perW—, 5 not in MINE is the momentous issue of civil war. The...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." With this last paragraph Mr.... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 516 pages
...First, that he would hold the United States forts, and second, that he would not be the aggressor. " 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." To this plan he adhered. If there... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1901 - 744 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...most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.'"1199 FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR, APRIL, 1861, TO APRIL, 1869. 449. Anderson's report ; division in... | |
 | 1901 - 782 pages
...inaugurated March 4, 1861. His inaugural address was firm but conciliatory, and he said to the secessionists: "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 made up his cabinet chiefly of those... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 pages
...The Government will not assail you. YJU can have no conflict without being yourselves the i^gressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...Government; while I shall have the most solemn one te • preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We... | |
 | 1903 - 640 pages
...inaugurated March 4, 1861. His inaugural address was firm but conciliatory, and he said to the secessionists: "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 made up his cabinet chiefly of those... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - 1904 - 508 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. 10 In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...to destroy the government, while I shall have the 15 most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1904 - 682 pages
...an amendment he declared that he had "no objection to its being made express and irrevocable. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, wliile I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." 335. Lincoln's Advisers.... | |
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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... 
