 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866
...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...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861
...momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered...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
...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...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 - 296 pages
...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...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
...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 the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862
...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...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... | |
 | 1862
...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...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
...of civil war. The Government will not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it. '" Thus he assumed his positions within the Constitution and the laws, and for the lawful continuance... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - United States - 1862
...you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall...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
...issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered...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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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... 
