 | 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been...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... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been...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... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been...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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have heen reached and passed. " A house divided against itself...other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the helief that it is in... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 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 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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...I believe that this 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 further 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... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 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 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... | |
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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. It will... 
