 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstono all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 pages
...pleadingly our President besought them to desist from their hellish designs! Hear him once more: — " I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends....of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...government; while 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...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...government ; while 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...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...government ; while 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...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...government ; while 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...cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad Land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Troy (N.Y.). Citizens - 1865 - 404 pages
...it was thus he conjured them 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...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...government ; while I shall have the most tolemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus... | |
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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,... 
