 | Troy (N.Y.). Citizens - 1865 - 404 Seiten
...nation, and 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....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth... | |
 | William James Potter - 1865 - 82 Seiten
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretched from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 506 Seiten
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...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,... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 Seiten
...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...must not break, our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 972 Seiten
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 480 Seiten
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves tho aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...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,... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 642 Seiten
...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, U the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. "You can have no conflict without being yourselves...destroy the government ; while I shall have the most tolemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends.... | |
 | David Lathrop - 1865 - 268 Seiten
...your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." And they had all confidence in the promises of the President, that the "laws of the Union should be... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - 322 Seiten
...entreaty and peace to those who had raised their mailed hands against the life of their father-land : " ' You can have no conflict without being yourselves...registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. The mystic cord of memory, stretching... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 Seiten
...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without heing yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government;...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... | |
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy... 
