 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. It is impossible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. It is impossible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1032 pages
...out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other: but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be mure faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting,... | |
 | Herbert Mitgang - Drama - 1982 - 68 pages
...out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after sepa- 35 ration than before? Can aliens make treaties, easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties... | |
 | Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...more satisfactory, after separation than before?" In this passage he especially touched a long-felt affinity arising from the interdependence of those... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting,... | |
 | Edward Millican - History - 292 pages
...out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? (AL, 4:269) The reality of secession and the power of anti-amalgamation sentiment prompt Lincoln to... | |
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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... 
