 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 346 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. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend1' 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 m3rstic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 506 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 cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | William James Potter - 1865 - 82 pages
...or more touching in its simple eloquence, than the closing words of his first Inaugural address : " 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 cords of memory, stretched... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 878 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 cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 480 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 cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 980 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 cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 230 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 cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 297 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have straine 1, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chord of memory, stretching... | |
 | 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords 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,... 
