
“ 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 the different parts of our country can not do this. ”
Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address (1 December 1862). copy citation
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1 December 1862
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