 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 become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place...  Abraham Lincoln, the First American - Page 46by David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...house to fall — but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...advocates will push it forward till it shall become lawful alike in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." It may perhaps be said... | |
 | 1859 - 424 pages
...the house to fall ; but I do expect it to cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new — north... | |
 | Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1860 - 24 pages
...the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become nil one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of uliinuite extinction;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1860 - 348 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the 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." ["Good," "good," and cheers.] I am delighted... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...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 of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | 1860 - 268 pages
...house to fall— but I do expect it will cease to he divided. It will hecome all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the helief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1860 - 414 pages
...Union to dissolve ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
 | 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?... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1860 - 326 pages
...Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 476 pages
...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 of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
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