 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,...  Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 - Page 175by Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...the most solemn one to l preserve, protect, and defend it.7 "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break, our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 pages
...to think well upon the fatal step they were about to take: " I am loth to close. 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,... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 pages
...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...affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living hearth and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break, our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 pages
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 606 pages
...the most solemn one, to 4preserve, protect and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - Claremont (N.H.) - 1869 - 384 pages
...the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' "I am loath to close. 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,... | |
 | 1916 - 1130 pages
...the South with which he closed his first inaugural : •• I am loth to close. 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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