 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
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 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 battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 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 - 1865 - 840 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...solemn one to ' • preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, bat friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...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,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of piemory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...conceive the last inaugural, or could indite the closing sentence of the first : — " The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 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 straine 1, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chord of memory, stretching... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...close. We arc not enemies, but friends. We must not bo 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 hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
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