 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,...  The Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 389by William Eleazar Barton - 1925 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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....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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 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....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 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 cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | 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...must not break our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 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 cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Robert Lodowick Stanton - History - 1864 - 588 pages
...the most solemn one to * preserve, protect, and defend it' I am loath to close. We arc not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-Held aud patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over Uus broad land,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 pages
...close. We are not enemies, but friencb. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it 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, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 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....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am leth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. ' We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth' stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...Government, while I shall have Ibe most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I MU loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every buttle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
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