 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...out of the presence, and beyond the reach of the other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and...amicable or hostile, must continue between them." In light of this, Lincoln asked, "can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws... | |
 | Sarah Luria - Architecture - 2006 - 250 pages
...divorced, and go ... 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."30 We are held together, Lincoln asserts, not by an artificial and tyrannical federal authority... | |
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...and that this commerce must be carried on either between the two sections as friends, or as aliens. " Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws among friends ? " After having stated fully and fairly the philosophy of the conflict, after having... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties, easier than friends can...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,... | |
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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... 
