 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...momentous issus 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 passions may have... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 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 in heaven to destroy the govern* Quoted from memory. COMFORT IN TRIBULATION. 17 ment, while I shall have the most solemn one... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...momentous issue of civil war. ThQXGovernment will not assail you. Y<ra 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... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - History - 1864 - 576 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...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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 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...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 M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 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...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... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 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...solemn one to ''preserve, protect, and defend it.' " Before he had called for a soldier, before he had the power to give an order with reference to a... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...civil war. The Government w,ll not a>s,til \ou. You can have no conflict without being your•elves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it' 1 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 592 pages
...civH war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...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 Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can hove no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered In heaven...solemn one to * preserve, protect, and defend it' I am loath to close. We arc 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... 
