 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...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,...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
...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...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
...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,...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
...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,...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, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Fletcher Pratt - History - 1997 - 466 pages
...in all the states. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. The different parts of our country must remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible to make that intercourse more advantageous after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 694 pages
...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...each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this." On to the end. When he first addressed that solemn warning to the South there had... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced...can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, cither amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse... | |
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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... 
