...difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you....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,...

...difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you....affection. " The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone ail over this broad land,...

...hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil м-аг. The government will not assail you. You can have no...will be, by the better angels of our nature." The oath of office was then administered by Chief Justice Taney ; the procession was again formed, and...

...felt the want of any stirring appeal to the patriotism of the people. Still, the closing paragraphs, " I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends....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,...

...close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passions 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,...

...difficulties. " In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you....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...

...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...they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The habitual tone of this remarkable paper is deprecatory, not to say apologetic. Mr. Lincoln evidently...

...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail y^u. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...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,...

...Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. Tou have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government...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...

...Government will not assail you. You can havo no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You havo no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government...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...