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,... Abraham Lincoln - Page 207by Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 482 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1877 - 226 pages
...no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...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. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1861 - 698 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection ; the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Wisconsin - 1861 - 390 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That, in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Wisconsin - 1861 - 394 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That, in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretehing from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over... | |
| 1862 - 200 pages
...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; we must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 pages
...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. We must...affection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone ail over this broad land,... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - 1863 - 554 pages
...of any stirring appeal to the patriotism of the people. Still, the closing paragraphs, " I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1863 - 598 pages
...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. "We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
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