 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one, to 4preserve, 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 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... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - Claremont (N.H.) - 1869 - 320 pages
...government will not assail you. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...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... | |
 | Lawrence Augustus Gobright - History - 1869 - 424 pages
...President read his Inaugural Address in a clear, distinct voice, concluding as follows : " 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... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - New Hampshire - 1870 - 694 pages
...government will not assail you. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government,...must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching fromevery battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Charles Henry Hart - 1870 - 106 pages
...words of warning and entreaty : most solemn one " to preserve, protect and defend it." " I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must...The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...government, while / 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... | |
 | 1916 - 1130 pages
...pathetic power than the appeal to the South with which he closed his first inaugural : •• 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 battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 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... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...destroy the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." t 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... | |
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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,... 
