 | Catholic literature - 1925 - 906 pages
...key-note to his strong appeal for unity. He said: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...the reach of each other; but the different parts of the country cannot do this. . . . That portion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1032 pages
...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other: but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Herbert Mitgang - Drama - 1982 - 68 pages
...idea of secession is the very essence of anarchy. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between 30 them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...consubstantiality to a high pitch when he dramatically stated: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 268 pages
...dictates of that allegorical body, Lincoln reasoned, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this." Indeed, if the integrity of that allegorical personhood were to be violated, if the... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Edward Millican - History - 292 pages
...with its warning of the dire consequences of secession: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. ... A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of...each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must... | |
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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... 
