 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1877 - 974 pages
...to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protectand défendit. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching froin every battle field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...faith in justice, and to say to the North and the South, in his inaugural address: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...faith in justice, and to say to the North and the South, in his inaugural address: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriotgrave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - New York (State) - 1879 - 656 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,... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Campaign literature, 1880 - 1880 - 516 pages
...His very first utterance at his inauguration, March 4, 1861, closed with these immortal words: "lam loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave, and every living heart and hearthstone all over this free land,... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Campaign literature, 1880 - 1880 - 514 pages
...Lincoln said to the South before his administration, and before the civil war: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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,... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 812 pages
...to aid him in his work, in the last sentences of his first Inaugural Address: " We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriotic grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this proud land,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 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,... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - United States - 1884 - 690 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,... | |
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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,... 
