 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 296 pages
...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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new—North as well as South." To such a distinct and commanding voice,... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 344 pages
...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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new, North as... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - History - 2004 - 240 pages
...the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it ... in [the] course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." Lincoln explained that a vast Slave Power... | |
 | Kenneth C. Davis - History - 2009 - 717 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South. Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal?... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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 as well as South. Despite every promise that Kansas-Nebraska... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...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...old as well as new, North as well as South." That extract and the sentiments expressed in it have been extremely offensive to Judge Douglas. He has warred... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...slave and half free 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Lincoln only meant by this that Kansas-Nebraska,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
