 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 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,...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... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1865 - 342 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 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,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend' it. "I sm loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends \Ve must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We arc not enemies, but friends. We must not bo enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 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,...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. fn your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...our present difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is tbo momentous issue of civil war. The Government will...solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. Wo must not be enemies. Though passion may... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hunde, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,...Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have Ibe most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I MU loth to close. We are not enemies,... | |
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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... 
