 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...Government will n<U assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Yun have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government,...but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it mu-t not break our bonds of a flection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 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 cords of memory, stretching from everv 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...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... | |
 | 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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone,... | |
 | 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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | George B. Herbert - United States - 1884 - 422 pages
...meeting and remedying real or alleged grievances, Mr. Lincoln concluded in these words : " 1 am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion m ay have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Biography & Autobiography - 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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one, — to preserve, protect, and defend ifc I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bond of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 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...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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation. LINCOLN: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and every patriot grave to every living heart and... | |
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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,... 
