 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...then better judge what to do, and how to do it. (House-divided-against-itself-speech, July 17, 1858.) "A house divided against itself can not stand." I...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 do expect it will... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 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,... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...Although so widely copied and commented upon, the following extract from the address is here given: "'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I...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... | |
 | American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...down, but in the West it could not remain sectional. It was the greatest of frontiersmen who declared: "I believe this Government can not endure permanently half slave and half free. It will become all of one thing or all of the other." Nothing works for nationalism like intercourse... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - United States - 1890 - 452 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 •rrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 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,... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...do not expect the union to be dissolved, 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 will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 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 will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1891 - 138 pages
...dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I 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 cours*of ultimate extinction... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 130 pages
...dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I 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 ulti. mate 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... 
