 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...  Das Staatsarchiv - Page 1121861Full view - About this book
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 pages
...nation, and it was thus he conjured them to think well upon the fatal step they were about to take: " I am loth 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 hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 pages
...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....affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living hearth and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - United States - 1890 - 340 pages
...upon the steps of the Capitol by the grandest man any country ever saw — ABRAHAM LINCOLN : " 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... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - Claremont (N.H.) - 1869 - 320 pages
...government, while 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...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,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect and defend it." " I am loth 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... | |
 | 1916 - 1130 pages
...greater pathetic power than the appeal to the South with which he closed his first inaugural : •• I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - New Hampshire - 1870 - 694 pages
...government, while 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...affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching fromevery battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad... | |
 | Charles Henry Hart - 1870 - 106 pages
...enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the union, when again touched,... | |
 | William Cothren - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) - 1872 - 878 pages
...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....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,... | |
 | William Cothren - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) - 1872 - 821 pages
...the most solemn one to ; preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loth to close. We are riot 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 hearth'-stone, all over this broad... | |
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