...4, p. 252. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must...

...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...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must...

...inaugural address the moving passage that begins, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other, but 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...

...while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not...can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, cither amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse...

...His First Inaugural Address also sounds this note: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must...

...of the revival of that nefarious traffic.77 [26] Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor...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...

...self-government." Roosevelt quoted Lincoln, 1861: "'Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse must continue between them.'"...

...exactly this point in his first inaugural address: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.'" The American Union that Lincoln struggled to preserve offered a model of how peoples...

...we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassible wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced,...each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse must continue between them.'"...

...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we can not separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must...