| 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
...The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends....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
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and...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 hearthstone... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...the Government, while I shall have the 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 strained, it must not break our bonds ef affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to 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, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to 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. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to 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. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have i strained,... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to 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; we must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to 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. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
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