 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking we cannot separate— we cannot...beyond the reach of each other, but the different sections of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...outgrowth of a permanent geographical condition, ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 252. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861 , reprinted... | |
 | 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...cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them" (Lincoln IV, 269). The interdiction of divorce in... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 694 pages
...preface it with another explanation. He quoted from his inaugural address the moving passage that begins, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot...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 been no fighting.... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...would not be surrendered at all by the other. 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, cither amicable or hostile,... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...aptitudes, it demands union, and abhors separation.32 His First Inaugural Address also sounds this note: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible then to make that intercourse more... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...did well to advertise to the world the probability of the revival of that nefarious traffic.77 [26] Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...extended. This is the only substantial dispute. . . . 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,... | |
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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... 
