 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath 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 enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath 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 not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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 enemies, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath 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 enemies, but friends; we must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered 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 enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most 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 - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath 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 enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath 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 enemies, but friends. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath 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 not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passions may have... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 pages
...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. 1 I am loath to close. We are not .enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
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In your hands, my dissatisfied 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 aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy... 
