| 1877 - 226 strani
...under it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 strani
...any length of warfare; they could be far better adjusted in Union than in enmity. He concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 strani
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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 strained,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 strani
...subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not... | |
| Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 strani
...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way...to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 strani
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
| 1861 - 456 strani
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 strani
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ' preserve,... | |
| Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 strani
...Congress should not meddle with the domestic institutions of the States. " In your hands," said he, " my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine,...not assail you ; you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ;... | |
| 1897 - 678 strani
...governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of civil war. The government will not assail you....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 strained,... | |
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