 | 1866 - 630 pages
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have tbe most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. "One section of our country believes... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are not enemies,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend ' it ••I am loth to close. We... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 764 pages
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government ; , while I shall have the most solemn one to i preserve, protect, and defend ' it s;I am loth to close. We are... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in Heaven to destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are... | |
 | Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna - Chile - 1866 - 202 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. *£}.' I am loath to close. We... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 764 pages
...addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly show the origin and true causes of the war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. " One section of our country... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; whilst I shall have the^ most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close.*... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied felltfw-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend ' it. ^1 am loth to close. •\\c... | |
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I shall have the most 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, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
