 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, 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 loving heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - United States - 1891 - 496 pages
...forget the influence of those affectionate sentences with which the address terminated ? " 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 - 1891 - 928 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 frqm every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' " I am loath to close. Wc are not enemies, hut 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 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 - 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,... | |
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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,... 
