 | Adam Bellow - 2004 - 580 pages
...address warned the seceded states to return or face the consequences. Yet he ended on an elegiac note: "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies." This plaintive appeal to friendship was unavailing. The cycle of mistrust —... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - 2005 - 246 pages
...destroy the government, while 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, stretching... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...momentous issue of civil war." Then, reaching out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: 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, stretching... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - 2005 - 886 pages
...destroy the Government, while 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 160 passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. ... 8. Jefferson Davis asserted... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - 2005 - 886 pages
...destroy the Government, while l shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." l am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though 160 passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. . . . 8. Jefferson Davis asserted... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 pages
...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] 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 stretching... | |
 | Simone Payment - 2004 - 68 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe 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, stretching... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...to recast and sharpen Seward's patriotic sentiments into a concise and powerful poetry: "I am loth 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, stretching... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...destroy the government, while 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...The mystic chords of memories, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot... | |
 | Mark A. Graber - 2006 - 300 pages
...to the problem of constitutional evil. The last paragraph offers a poetic appeal for national unity: 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, stretching... | |
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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,... 
