 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 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,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 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,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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 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... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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;... | |
 | E. R. Hanson - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1881 - 552 pages
...was impressed with his prophetic utterance in that discussion, which has since been so often quoted: 'A house divided against itself can not stand. I believe...can 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... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 812 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;... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 592 pages
...since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy...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... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 586 pages
...since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy...one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents rf slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...I 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,... | |
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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... 
