 | Mary Doak - Religion - 2004 - 264 pages
...PUBLIC THEOLOGY Mary Doak STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS "Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - History - 2004 - 348 pages
...'preserve, protect, and defend' it. ... 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 battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | James Panabaker - History - 2004 - 264 pages
...Civil War in the closing lines of the first inaugural address: 'Though passion may have strained, it must 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 broad land,... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...poetically, the idea Seward's, the language his own: 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 battle field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...momentous issue of civil war." Then, reaching out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must...affection. 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,... | |
 | Simone Payment - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe 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,... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...to recast and sharpen Seward's patriotic sentiments into a concise and powerful poetry: "I am loth 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,... | |
 | Paul Woodruff - Philosophy - 2006 - 304 pages
...Lincoln's plea for harmony is addressed to the South at his first inauguration: We are not 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,... | |
 | Bruce D. Weinstein - Philosophy - 2005 - 200 pages
...Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, which he gave on Monday, March 4, 1861: We are not 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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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy... 
