 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. WE CANNOT SEPARATE. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate; we cannot...different parts of our country cannot do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 694 pages
...of perpetuity." Then he proceeded to show how, geographically, it was impossible for the States to separate: "We cannot remove our respective sections...the reach of each other, but the different parts of the country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...fugitive slaves, 320 now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband 325 and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 600 pages
...wholly successful, ever been more succinctly exposed than it was by him in his first inaugural : " Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...other, nor build an impassable wall between them. . . . Is it possible then to make our intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...other. Physically speaking, the people could not separate. They could not remove the North and the South from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife might be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different... | |
 | New Thought - 1953 - 1224 pages
...produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself PHYSICALLY SPEAKING, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile,... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1925 - 906 pages
...these United States. His first inaugural gave the key-note to his strong appeal for unity. He said: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...while fugitive slaves, now only partially surtendered, would not be surtendered at all by the other. 4 "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...from each other, nor build an impassable wall between 30 them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 268 pages
...annual message to Congress (1862). Pointing to the dictates of that allegorical body, Lincoln reasoned, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot...the different parts of our country cannot do this." Indeed, if the integrity of that allegorical personhood were to be violated, if the unthinkable physical... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...that manifest, Lincoln persisted in the belief. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate," he claimed. "We cannot remove our respective sections from each...other, nor build an impassable wall between them." He argued: "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory... | |
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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... 
