 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...  The Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate - Page 99by Victor Alvin Ketcham - 1914 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until...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 - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 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 - Campaign literature - 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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...shall rest in the belief that it is in the 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 as well as South." In other words, Mr. Lincoln asserts as a fundamental principle of this government, that there must be... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 476 pages
...shall rest in the belief that it is in the 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 as well as South." In other words, Mr. Lincoln asserts as a fundamental principle of this government, that there must be... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 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?... | |
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