 | Michael Waldman - 363 strani
...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government,...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 strained... | |
 | Prescott Holmes - 1899 - 314 strani
...will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have an oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government,...solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' " To his Cabinet he called William H. Seward of New York as Secretary of State; Salmon P. Chase of... | |
 | David Williamson - 2004 - 460 strani
...will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government,...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... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 strani
...will not assail YOU. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...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 strained,... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 strani
...assail [attack] you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...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,"... | |
 | David E. Johnson, Johnny Ray Johnson - 2004 - 260 strani
...and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," he said in his inaugural address. "You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...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 strani
...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.... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 420 strani
...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... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 strani
...the right side in the dispute, there still is no single reason for precipitate action. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government,...one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 strani
...will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...one to 'preserve, protect and defend it...' "I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies.. .The mystic chords of memories,... | |
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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... 
