| 1877 - 226 Seiten
...immediate power, if it would, to change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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
...adjusted in Union than in enmity. He concluded : " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 Seiten
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty, ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
| 1861 - 456 Seiten
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. ^f In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
| Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 Seiten
...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....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.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 Seiten
...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....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... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 Seiten
...difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you....destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
| 1862 - 200 Seiten
...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. " I am loth to close; we are not enemies, but friends;... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 Seiten
...adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 Seiten
...in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....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,... | |
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