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... Abraham Lincoln: A Lecture - Page 15by Robert Green Ingersoll - 1895 - 53 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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...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,... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 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...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every ba'ttiefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| 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....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,... | |
| 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....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,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 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...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,... | |
| Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds ef affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching...from every battle-field and patriotic grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1861 - 698 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it 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 all over this broad land,... | |
| Wisconsin - 1861 - 390 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That, in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it 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 all over this broad land,... | |
| Wisconsin - 1861 - 394 pages
...revolutionary memory. Resolved, That, in the language of the inaugural, " Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretehing from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over... | |
| 1862 - 200 pages
...destroy the 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;...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
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