 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 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...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | James Lorenzo Bowen - Massachusetts - 1884 - 502 pages
...sentences: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must niit be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad laud,... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 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...affection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Springfield Republican - 1885 - 444 pages
...plain man by his own fireside. At the end it rose to a strain of pathetic sublimity : " I am loath, to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 144 pages
...loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may strain, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 456 pages
...close. We are not enemies, but friends. Wo must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Government, while / 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...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad Land,... | |
 | Elias Benjamin Sanford - Connecticut - 1887 - 396 pages
...touching eloquence he closed by saying, " We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 580 pages
...the government; while I have the most solemn one, ' to preserve, protect, and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Warner Nichols - 1888 - 302 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...affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad Jand... | |
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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... 
