 | 1866 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 616 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 strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. 4 ' The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | 1868 - 422 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...the Government, while I 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 strained, it must not break the bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 658 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 strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord 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,... 
