 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 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...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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...Government cannot endure permanently half slave arid half free. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...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." Now you all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 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 course of ultimate extinction; or, its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, north... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 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 course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 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 course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...the House to fall, but I do expect It will cease to be divided. It will hecome all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push forward till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States —old as well as new, North... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 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 course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new. North... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the oppom nts of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...course of ultimate extinction ; or, its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful" in all the States — old as well as new,... | |
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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... 
