 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 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 arc not enemies, but friends. We must not bo enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...momentous issues 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 nm loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail yi4b 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, bat friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 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 have... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...momentous issues of civil war. The Government will not assail yon. Yon 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 V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 pages
...momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no confli6t without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " What more could they ask? With the positive pledge that the Government would not assail them, who... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 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...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 Turner Coggeshall - 1865 - 342 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... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...civil 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... | |
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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... 
