 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 cords of memory,...  abraham lincoln - Page 205by charles carleton coffin - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and...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... | |
 | 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...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearilistone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...His Inaugural Speech closed with the following eloquent appeal to the enemies of the country : — " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ThQXGovernment will not assail you. Y<ra can have no conflict without being yourselves the...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 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...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties. fn your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 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...be, by the better angels of our nature." Mr. Lincoln on assuming the reins of government found the North immersed in the affairs of peace ; the national... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 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...be, by the better angels of our nature." Mr. Lincoln on assuming the reins of government found the North immersed in the affairs of peace ; the national... | |
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