 We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 386edited by - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...said: " If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...passed. ' 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... | |
 | Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated wii_ the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting...one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of t-lavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...passed. " 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... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...CONVENTION : If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.'7 I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but...passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government canjot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but...passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...them. In his speech at Springfield to the Convention, which nominated him for the Senate, he said : "In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall...passed. "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... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation* had only not ceased, but had constantly augmented." " I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. ( A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." " I do not expect the... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...quotation and all (laughter). I give his exact language : " In my opinion it [the slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...distinguished Republican standard-bearer in these words : " In my opinion it (the Slavery agitation) will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. ' A House divided against itself cannot stand.' X believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and h*lf fr*e. I do not expect ihe House... | |
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