Separation is interminable war, “never ending, still beginning,”--worse than the forays which ravaged the Scottish border, or the Tartar invasions which harassed China until its famous wall was built, fifteen hundred miles long, and so thick that six horsemen ride upon it abreast.
Sumner compares the consequences of separation to historical conflicts, emphasizing the inevitability of ongoing war.
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