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... Historical Source Book - Page 177by Hutton Webster - 1920 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...fellowcountrymen, 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...registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath to close. We are... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
| Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...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...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... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...fellowcountrymen, 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...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are... | |
| History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...fellowcountrymen, 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...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...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...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. " I am loth to close; we are not... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...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...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loth to close. We... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the...registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. "We are... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are... | |
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