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... Complete Works - Page xivby Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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 till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
| 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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till 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... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 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 till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...house to fall— but I do expect it will cease to he 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 it forward, till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North... | |
| 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it 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
...Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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 till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
| Hugo Reid - Nova Scotia - 1861 - 328 pages
...believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ii The opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as nsw— North... | |
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