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" 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. "
“The” American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United ... - Page 413
by Horace Greeley - 1865
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Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth

Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after sepa- 35 ration than before? Can aliens make treaties, easier than...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...
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Abraham Lincoln, Public Speaker

Waldo W. Braden - 1993 - 132 pages
...this. They 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 satisfactory, after separation than before?" In this passage he especially touched a long-felt affinity arising from the interdependence of those...
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Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-century Perspective

Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 pages
...this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse...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...
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One United People: The Federalist Papers and the National Idea

Edward Millican - 292 pages
...remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can between friends?"14 These are clearly the sentiments of Publius. In the twentieth century, the clearest...
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Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures

Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 pages
...nothing. In 1861, hoping to discourage civil war, he had told his disgruntled southern countrymen: "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 question[s] ... are...
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Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism

Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 pages
...this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse...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...
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Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pages
...this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse...enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? (AL, 4:269) The reality of secession and the power of anti-amalgamation sentiment prompt Lincoln to...
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The Theory and Practice of Political Communication Research

Mary E. Stuckey - 1996 - 252 pages
...violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?"; and "Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more...more satisfactory after separation than before?"; and finally, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the u u ill. sz 1- O — X ££ Q. ~...
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Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from ...

Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 481. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). 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...
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A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire

Fletcher Pratt - 1997 - 466 pages
...amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible to make that intercourse more advantageous after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? "But in your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil...
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