...intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them." In light of this, Lincoln asked, "can treaties be more faithfully enforced between...questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you."93 Lincoln turned to the recent work of Congress; he acknowledged that the sovereign will of the...

...a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? Gregory Clark Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens...cease fighting, the identical old questions as to term John Stuart Mill Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even during war, otherwise...

...principle. He argued forcefully against war on the practical ground that it was unnecessary and fruitless: "Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and...questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you."48 He closed with a passionate, poetic plea: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...

...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than before f Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...laws can among friends ? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting,...

...then to make that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than before! Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends?. . . This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall...

...then to make that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends?24 It would prove easy for the states that seceded from the Union at this time to unite on...

...cannot remove our respective sections one from each other, nor build an impassable wall between. . . . Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and...either you cease fighting, the identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism,...

...rise or fall, but their relation was permanent. "Suppose you go to war," Lincoln reminded them all; "you cannot fight always; and when after much loss...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions . . . are again upon you." It would be four years before Lincoln's words were fully understood. The...

...and that this commerce must be carried on either between the two sections as friends, or as aliens. " Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws among friends ? " After having stated fully and fairly the philosophy of the conflict, after having...

...cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties, easier than friends can...questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. "... Our national strife springs not from our permanent part; not from the land we inhabit; not from...