| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| United States - 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...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
...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...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... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have i 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 hearilistone all over... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - History - 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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 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...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,... | |
| William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...destroy the 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....bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot-grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over... | |
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