 | Robert Dale Owen - Slavery - 1863 - 22 pages
...final necessity which his position imposed upon him. "You have no oath" (he said) "registered in Heaven to destroy the Government : while I have the most...solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." He spoke to the deaf adder. As if they had sworn before God to destroy the Government under which, for... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 pages
...already in arms against lawful authority — " you have no oath registered in Heaven 54 to destroy this government ; while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." These facts were palpable. Yet every man in the North who sympathized with the rebellion, and who was... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I 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... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I 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 Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' Ih — ABRAHAM LINCOLN : First Inaugural. " I don't know any thing about making speeches; that is not... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." This touching appeal in the President's first inaugural only increased the jeers and ribaldry of the... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 144 pages
...aggressors," concluding his address with the following words : " You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I 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 strain,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I 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... | |
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You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. 
