| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 800 pages
...dissatisfied countrymen : "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." He evidently supposed that this oath, embodied in the Constitution, was of some significance; and that... | |
| Conduct of life - 1865 - 400 pages
...being yourselves the aggres!. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, ;le I have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. in loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be mies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
| United States - 1891 - 928 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 loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Robert M. King - School management and organization - 1894 - 348 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 loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Richard W. Thompson - 1896 - 280 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, defend, and protect' it." And as if further inspired by the hope, if not the belief, that they might... | |
| New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...the sacredness of law. Lincoln said to them, " You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy this government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." And so the North, with fire and sword, with bayonets and bombs and torpedoes, with gunpowder and lead... | |
| Edward Channing - United States - 1896 - 378 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." He gathered about him a Cabinet of able men : Seward, Secretary of State, Chase, Secretary of the Treasury,... | |
| Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 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 loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
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