 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...  Lincolniana: In Memoriam - Página 323por William V. Spencer - 1865 - 346 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benson John Lossing - 1878 - 722 páginas
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government ; whilst I shall have the most solemn one to * preserve, protect, and defend ' it." The Secessionists would listen to no words of kindness, of justice, or of warning ; they had resolved... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the...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... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - 2003 - 367 páginas
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the...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... | |
 | Kenneth C. Davis - 2009 - 717 páginas
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the...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... | |
 | David Williamson - 2004 - 460 páginas
...can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the...solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it." It was, of course, too late. The seven seceded states now claimed that all seized Federal installations... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 páginas
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it." The South responded sharply. "It is our wisest policy to accept [the speech] as a declaration of war,"... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 páginas
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | David E. Johnson, Johnny Ray Johnson - 2004 - 260 páginas
...momentous issue of civil war," he said in his inaugural address. "You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." Historians have for decades rated Lincoln, mercilessly attacked in his day as "a country clown" and... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - 2004 - 348 páginas
...Then, earnestly and eloquently, "While you have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. ... We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 420 páginas
...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. The assurances did not matter. Southern leaders had come to insist not only that slavery prevail in... | |
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