 | Henry Stuart Foote - History - 1866 - 462 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...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... | |
 | Kansas. Legislature. Senate - 1866 - 630 pages
...homo. His closing remarks are -already historic : i ' •"lam loth to close. ' We are not eneniies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. '"The mystic chords of memory, stretehing from every battlefield and patriotic grave, to every living heart and... | |
 | John A. J. Creswell - 1866 - 56 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 battlefield and patriot grave to every living hearth and hearth-stone... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 764 pages
...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...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... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 764 pages
...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 cords of memory, stretching from every batlle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Presidents - 1867 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 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...must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living hearth and hearthstone... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 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...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 - 1868 - 422 pages
...government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government...of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, \vill yet swell the chorus... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 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...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... | |
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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,... 
