 | 1877 - 226 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ellison - 1861 - 432 Seiten
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 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
