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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... "
The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery - Page 114
by Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 720 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...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,...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 43

United States - 1859 - 406 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 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,...
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The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of Abram [sic] Lincoln: Together ...

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...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...
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Life of Stephen A. Douglas: United States Senator from Illinois

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...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...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...
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Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...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...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

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...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...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...
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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 556 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...
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