 | 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
...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. We must...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issne of civil war. The Government will not assail you....but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our honds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...destroy the 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....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
...destroy the 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....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
...aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it....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
...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
...that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single good cause for precipitate action. " Intelligence, patriotism,...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
...Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has. never yet forsaken this favoured land, are still competent to adjust in the best way...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
...you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath regif ered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall...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... | |
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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, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
