 | 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 is in course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | 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...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 the course... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 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...Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is m the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Stephen Arnold Douglas - Slavery - 1860 - 24 pages
...free. I do not expect 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;... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 556 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 of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...half free. I do not expect the 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 furthfer spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...free. I do not expect the House to fall, but I do expect tt will cease tu be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of H, and place U where Ihe public mind ahull rest In the belÍ€Í that It Is... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...June, 1858, before the Springfield Convention, in which he said : " In my opinion the Slavery agitation will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further upread of it — place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it u in the... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...Springfield Convention, in which he said : " In my opinion the Slavery agitation will not cease nntil a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house...other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of it — place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it it in... | |
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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.... 
