 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 766 страница
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail yon ; you can have no conflict without being yourselves...registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, mid defeud it. " One section of our country... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1866 - 760 страница
...in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you; you can !iiive in) conflict without being yourselves the aggressors....registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1866 - 314 страница
...sought to avoid it;" and at the same ttme declared to the world concerning those who deprecated it, " the government will not assail you ; you can have...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." REVOLUTION. ALL was now warlike. The Rubicon was passed. Bayonets bristled on every side. Commissions... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1866 - 630 страница
...canses of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentons issue of civil war. The government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without heing yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 страница
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 страница
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 598 страница
...appeared at Washington in due time and delivered his inaugural, closing with these memorable words : "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 616 страница
...appeared at Washington in due time and delivered his inaugural, closing with these memorable words : "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn... | |
 | George Lunt - 1867 - 536 страница
...for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among people anywhere. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors." It is difficult to conceive how much less than this could have been said by the Chief Magistrate, under... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 554 страница
...still, small voice, scarcely audible and less heeded, Moating over the disturbed elements, saying: ''You can have no conflict without being yourselves...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one "to preserve, protect, and defend it." If the Almighty ruler of nations,... | |
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I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
