 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...  Report of the ... Annual Re-union - Page 29by Society of the Army of the Potomac - 1888Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 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...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... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every ba'ttiefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...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...The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot-grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...the most 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...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... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...the most 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...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 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...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,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1861 - 698 pages
...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, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched,... | |
 | Wisconsin - Session laws - 1861 - 390 pages
...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, will yet swell the chorus of the union, when again touched,... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...have the most 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...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...most 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...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... | |
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