 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity,and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken...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 are... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 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... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 804 pages
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. In your hands, my dissatisf1ed fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourself the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall... | |
 | Rob DiSilvestre - Cooking - 2002 - 118 pages
...aggressors in this dispute, however, nor any doubt about his determination to protect the Union. He said, "You can have no conflict without being yourselves...registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.'" It was Monday, March 4, 1961.... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing...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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who arc dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there...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... | |
 | David Williamson - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...property, however, Lincoln threw down the gauntlet: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow 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." It was, of course, too late.... | |
 | Prescott Holmes - Presidents - 1899 - 314 pages
..."preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." In his address to Congress he said: " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...without being yourselves the aggressors. You have an oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve,... | |
 | Kenneth C. Davis - History - 2009 - 717 pages
...1861): In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous question of civil war. The Government will not assail you....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... | |
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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,... 
