...can be lost by taking time. Plainly, the central idea of secession is the very essence of anarchy. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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;...

...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...

...Lincoln brought this fervent play upon consubstantiality to a high pitch when he dramatically stated: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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;...

...annual message to Congress (1862). Pointing to the dictates of that allegorical body, Lincoln reasoned, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot...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...

...while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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;...

...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...

...outgrowth of a permanent geographical condition, ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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;...

...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 252. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot...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;...

...preface it with another explanation. He quoted from his inaugural address the moving passage that begins, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot...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...

...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 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...