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.... Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 159by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
| 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...advocates will push it forward till it shall become lawful alike in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." It may perhaps be said... | |
| James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall...South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Lot any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South." ["Good," "good," and cheers.] I am delighted... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South." Now you all see, from that quotation, I did... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old aa well as new, North as well as South." Now you all see, from that quotation, I did... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in tl*e 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 aew — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South." Now you all see, from that quotation, I did... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it it in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, the old as well as the new — the Xorth as well as the South." This, taken in conjunction... | |
| Hugo Reid - Nova Scotia - 1861 - 328 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South." The same idea as Mr. Seward's " irrepressible... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, the old as well as the new — the North as well as the Sooth." This, taken in confirmation... | |
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