 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...  Hearings - Page 15by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1924Full view - About this book
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...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...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...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...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...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 the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...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 the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. '" Thus he assumed his positions within the Constitution and the laws, and for the lawful continuance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 pages
...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...one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | 1862 - 200 pages
...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...solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. " I am loth to close; we are not enemies, but friends; we must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall...one to ' ' preserve, protect, and defend" it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have i strained,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1863 - 598 pages
...civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. "We are not enemies, but friends. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...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 the govern* Quoted from memory. COMFORT IN TRIBULATION. 17 ment, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
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