| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 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 of slavery will arrest the furthet spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 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,... | |
| David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...Kansas is neither the whole, nor the tithe of the real question. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government can not endure permanently half slave, and half free. I expressed this belief a year ago; and subsequent developments have but confirmed me. I do not expect... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. ABRAHAM LINCOLN if THE HOUSE DIVIDED SPEECH I believe this Government can not endure permanently half slave and half free. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Selfeducated, he tried his hand at... | |
| James L. Abrahamson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...prophecy that "this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will . . . place it ... in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will put it forward, till... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...it could not remain sectional. It was the greatest of frontiersmen [Abraham Lincoln] 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... | |
| Susan Provost Beller - History - 2003 - 132 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;... | |
| Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 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 ... in the course of ultimate extinction or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall... | |
| William Edward Leuchtenburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 426 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;... | |
| Don Harrison Doyle - Political Science - 2002 - 152 pages
...Divided speech: This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ... 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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