 | Metropolitan Record, New York - United States - 1864 - 136 pages
...to the following remarkable expression of his political faith in the future destiny of the Republic: "I BELIEVE THIS GOVERNMENT CAN NOT ENDURE PERMANENTLY HALF SLAVE AND HALF FREE." Impressed with this belief, he took a solemn oath to faithfully execute the duties of his office, and... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....not 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... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but had constantly augmented. I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved' — I am quoting from my speech — ' I do not expect the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but had constantly augmented. ' I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect tho Union to be dissolved" — I am quoting from my speech — " I do not expect the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but had constantly augmented. I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved" — I am quoting from my speech — " I do not expect the... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but had constantly augmented. I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved' — I am quoting from my speech — ' I do not expect the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...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 opponents...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 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...Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction;... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...— 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...— 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
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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... 
