 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 pages
...closed his inaugural address with the following touching appeal to the enemies of the Government : — " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1884 - 266 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government...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,... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - 1884 - 690 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Yoii have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government,...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1884 - 264 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Ton have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government,...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,... | |
 | Joshua Fry Speed - 1884 - 78 pages
...being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Goverment, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve,...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,... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1884 - 530 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,... | |
 | James Lorenzo Bowen - 1884 - 502 pages
...sentences: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must niit be enemies. 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 laud,... | |
 | 1885 - 504 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors ; you can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government,...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,... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1885 - 444 pages
...the talk of a plain man by his own fireside. At the end it rose to a strain of pathetic sublimity : " I am loath, to close. We are not enemies, but friends....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,... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1885 - 456 pages
...close. We are not enemies, but friends. Wo must not be enemies. 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 hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
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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,... 
