 | John Wien Forney - 1880 - 514 Seiten
...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...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave, and every living heart and hearthstone all over this free land,... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 928 Seiten
...steps, was welcomed by one and all most heartily and cordially. "We are not enemies," he said, "but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...must not break our bonds of affection. " The mystic chord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | 1880 - 698 Seiten
...most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 Seiten
...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...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Holman Hamilton - 1978 - 98 Seiten
...the nation. Lincoln altered Seward's version as follows: I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stre[t]ching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 Seiten
...most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 Seiten
...South and men of patriotic goodwill everywhere. "I am loth to close," he said. "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...will be, by the better angels of our nature."" The speech was a blend of political cunning and bedrock idealism, a style of leadership that Lincoln had... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 1330 Seiten
...once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The Coming of the Civil War, 1846-1861 CONCLUSION: OUTBREAK OF WAR AT FORT SUMTER Yet only one day after... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 Seiten
...most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Paul Woodruff - 2006 - 304 Seiten
...Lincoln's plea for harmony is addressed to the South at his first inauguration: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
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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... 
