| Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . . I am loath to close. We ary not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. 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 ba'ttiefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....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... | |
| History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. ^f I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, hut friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you....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... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you....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,... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have i strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearilistone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no...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,... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - History - 1863 - 554 pages
...felt the want of any stirring appeal to the patriotism of the people. Still, the closing paragraphs, " I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
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