 | 1899 - 652 pages
...close. We are not enemies, lint friends. We must not be enemies. Though may have strained, it most not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this bioad land,... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...difficulties, the President closes as follows : — In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, ;uid defend it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies,...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1894 - 346 pages
...Probably there are fewer and finer passages of literature than the close of Lincoln's first message: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 pages
...Probably there are few finer passages in literature than the close of Lincoln's inaugural address : " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Robert M. King - School management and organization - 1894 - 348 pages
...the government, while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath 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 hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 pages
...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. We must...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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...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. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...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. We must...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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are pot enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
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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,... 
