 A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will...  Abraham Lincoln, and Other Addresses in England - Page 19by Joseph Hodges Choate - 1910 - 293 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1860 - 326 pages
...confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States; old as well as new, North as well as South. THE BRED SCOTT DECISION — ITS HISTORY. Have... | |
 | 1860 - 268 pages
...ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have heen reached and passed. " A house divided against itself...its advocates will push it forward, till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1860 - 280 pages
...I do not expect the house to 'fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States- — old as well as new, North as well as South." There you find that Mr. Lincoln lays down... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...dissolved— I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | 1860 - 138 pages
...I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half slave arid half free. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." Now you all see, from that quotation, I did... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1860 - 348 pages
...free. I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it 'hall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South." There... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 560 pages
...arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | 1860 - 266 pages
...the public mind sh;ill rest in the belief that it is in t !*•• course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | 1860 - 270 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in tl*e course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as aew — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
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