 | William Cothren - 1872 - 878 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... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - 1872 - 586 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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 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 hare strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - 1873 - 320 pages
...the government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect and defend it.' lam 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 Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...government, while I shall have the most sol. emn 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... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - 1874 - 514 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 the bonds of affection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 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... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - 1877 - 974 pages
...the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protectand défendit. 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... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - 1879 - 656 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... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1880 - 514 pages
...very first utterance at his inauguration, March 4, 1861, closed with these immortal words: "lam 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... | |
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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,... 
