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... Letters from Waldegrave Cottage - Page 126by George Warner Nichols - 1888 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every ba'ttiefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| 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...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,... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...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 - 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...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 - 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...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... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1861 - 698 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection ; the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Wisconsin - Session laws - 1861 - 390 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That, in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Wisconsin - Session laws - 1861 - 394 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That, in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretehing from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over... | |
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