 | Joshua Fry Speed - California - 1884 - 78 pages
...the Goverment, 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,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 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 hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Springfield Republican - 1885 - 444 pages
...plain man by his own fireside. At the end it rose to a strain of pathetic sublimity : " 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 hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 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 hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Government, while / 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,... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 580 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 Warner Nichols - 1888 - 302 pages
...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. 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 Jand... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, are the momentous issues of civil war. The government will not assail you....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,... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. LOYALTY AND HEROISM. 11 The government will not assail you. You can have no...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,... | |
 | Jarvis Sherman Wight - 1890 - 294 pages
...great heart beat in every word of his passionate appeal to the men of the South : " 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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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,... 
