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,... Abraham Lincoln - Page 86by Ernest Foster - 1885 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
| 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...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, stretching... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 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 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
...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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
| 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 - 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
| 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have i strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
| 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
| 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching... | |
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