 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1869 - 320 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... | |
 | Lawrence Augustus Gobright - 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1870 - 696 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... | |
 | 1927 - 978 pages
...preceding December. But gentle of spirit and sanguine of nature, the president turned his face southward : "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." It was no light occasion. The South meant... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1870 - 700 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 aft'ection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Charles Henry Hart - 1870 - 96 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | 1916 - 1122 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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 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... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 418 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. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - 1872 - 568 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 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,... 
