 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 386edited by - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 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."... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; 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 will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...of themselves gradually subside with the wind. " The agitation of the slavery question," he said, " will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...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,... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1877 - 974 pages
...house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or «// 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 belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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....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,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 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....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,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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 further*~spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1887 - 434 pages
...arrest the turth r spread of it, ;nj'l phtce it where tbe public mind shall rest in the belief th-t it is In course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it vhflll become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South " The course... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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;... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago - 1881 - 812 pages
...only not closed, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis has been reached and passed, A house divided against itself...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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