...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."8 Lincoln's words were so blunt,...

...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...aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy ihe government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. Thus flowed...

...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...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." In the White House, Lincoln's first day in office was just as he had feared. Besides the constitutional...

...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 most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.1 For Lincoln to take an oath, swearing that it is registered in Heaven, if not genuinely sincere,...

...the American people. With them he specifically addressed all those living in the South: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...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,...

...by turning around Seward's suggested "I close," which was too abrupt for what followed: 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,...

...the words coming out of our own civil war where it was said by Abraham Lincoln: "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,...

...paragraph a sharp distinction between his moral situation and that of his dissatisfied countrymen: "You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." Pennsylvania Avenue past the crowds, the riflemen watching from rooftops. Buchanan had a different...

...declared that the states did not have the constitutional right to secede. His very words were, "You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it."45 The War began as South Carolina fired on federal troops at Fort Sumter. It would prove to be...