 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...  Complete Works - Page xivby Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...Government could not endure permanently half slave and half free. " Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 288 pages
...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 the one thing or...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...not expect the house to fall — but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or the other. Either the opponents of slavery...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...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 course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 140 pages
...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 of slavery will arrest...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...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 course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...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 course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, north... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...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 the one thing or...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...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 the one thing or...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states<t)ld as well as new, North as well... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 410 pages
...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 the one thing or...the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well... | |
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