... "Re-union with them? No, sir, never! There is a great gulf that rolls between us. It is a gulf of blood, without a shore and without a bottom, and is as inseparable as that which separated Dives from Lazarus. The mute objects of nature; our desecrated churches and altars; our sweet valleys, drenched in blood and charred by fire, forbid it. The dead would cry out against it from their gory ...