 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....  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 388edited by - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 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 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,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 686 pages
...Convention: — If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...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;... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey F. Black - 1872 - 604 pages
...promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey F. Black - 1872 - 630 pages
...not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall hare been reached and passed. " A house divided against...other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 568 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 ultimate extinction... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 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 of slavery will arrest the further spread of 1t, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 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,... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 754 pages
...do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all oue thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the pul)lic mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1875 - 756 pages
...hand : " If we could first know where we arc and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...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... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 276 pages
...divided—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 extension."... | |
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