 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...do not expect the 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 the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it... | |
 | United States - 1859 - 406 pages
...dissolved. I do not expect 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 the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...CONVENTION: Jf we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...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... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...Convention: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...CONVENTION : If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Campaign literature - 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...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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 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 of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it... | |
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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 become all one thing, or all the other. Either... 
