 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. " Physically speaking,, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous after separation than before'? Can... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. " Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections...impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may bo divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1874 - 978 pages
...authoritative manner direct the contrary. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot move the respective sections from each other, nor build an...face, and intercourse either amicable or hostile must coutiue between them. Is it possible then to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...that manifest, Lincoln persisted in the belief. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate," he claimed. "We cannot remove our respective sections from each...other, nor build an impassable wall between them." He argued: "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other. between them. A husband and wife may be divorced,...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...geographical condition, ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. “First Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v.4,... | |
 | William Safire - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 1066 pages
...now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation... | |
 | Marshall L. DeRosa - 396 pages
...all by the other. Physically speaking, we can not separate. We cannot remove our respective claims from each other, nor build an impassable wall between...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more satisfactory, after separation than before! Can... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - History - 1997 - 180 pages
...balances" but rather offered a domestic image to illustrate the stakes in keeping the Union whole: "A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them" (Lincoln IV, 269). The interdiction of divorce in the Union "household" stoked the fires of reunion,... | |
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Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different... 
