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, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 284by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, 1809-1865 - 1866 - 568 pages
...make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can...between aliens than laws can among friends ? Suppose yon go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both eides, and no gain on cither,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1866 - 624 pages
...whether that intercourse would be more agreeable after separation. " Can aliens," asked the President, "make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced among aliens than laws can among friends ? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1867 - 748 pages
...frankly, than President Lincoln himself, when he declared so emphatically in his Inaugural Address: " Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and...questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you." The great advantage of victories, my friends, is in opening the way for a wise, conciliatory, healing... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1867 - 756 pages
...when he declared so emphatically in his Inaugural Address : " Suppose you go to war, you cannot tight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides and...questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you." The great advantage of victories, my friends, is in opening the way for a wise, conciliatory, healing... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1867 - 568 pages
...more faithfully enforced among aliens than laws among friends ? Suppose you do go to war, you can not fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain to either, you cease fighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you."... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1867 - 766 pages
...cannot fight always ; ami when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on cither, you cease lighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you." The great advantage of victories, my friends, is in opening the way for a wise, conciliatory, healing... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1868 - 1438 pages
...advantageous, or more satisfactory, afier separation than before ? Can aliens make Treaties, ea.-der than friends can make laws ? Can Treaties be more...cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on botli sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...knowledge of the lessons taught by history in relation to all civil wars, in his inaugural address said, " Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse arc again upon you ; " and whereas we now have an armistice,... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 992 pages
...make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than befort ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws ?...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs... | |
 | James Laird Vallandigham - Ohio - 1872 - 628 pages
...Republican press pronounced it wise — "a master-stroke of policy." He himself said in the inaugural : — "Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ;...no gain on either you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you." Mr. Vallandigham returned home in March,... | |
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