 | Mark A. Graber - 2006
...problem of constitutional evil. The last paragraph offers a poetic appeal for national unity: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal - 2011 - 256 páginas
...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...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to reserve, protect, and defend it. ... We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro - 2006 - 1067 páginas
...revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it. First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861 30 We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | 2006 - 280 páginas
...countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you — you have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." Lincoln started from humble beginnings and worked diligently to learn how to read and write. He worked... | |
 | Eric Eckelman - 2006 - 280 páginas
...Lincoln even warned the South in his Inaugural Address. And, I quote: government will not assail you ...You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy...solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it...'." "So, he was resolved to save the entire Union?" a man asked. "I think that would be safe to say. Along... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 páginas
...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...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it."95 At Seward's suggestion,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - 2007 - 114 páginas
...in March of 1861, Lincoln urged the Confederates not to start a civil war, saying they had no right "to destroy the government, while I shall have the...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." But when, in April, Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, a Union garrison off the coast CHARLESTON MERCURY... | |
 | Robert G. Ingersoll - 2007 - 516 páginas
...Probably there are few finer passages In literature than the close of Lincoln's inaugural address : " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - 2007 - 419 páginas
...a shorter, but more moving statement, containing, as so often with his writing, a touch of poetry: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - 2007
...unimpaired to him, to his successor," Lincoln used the oath to draw a line in the sand to confederates. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves...solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it." Rather than serving as a contract with which a president may be bound or even entrapped, the oath became... | |
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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... 
