 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
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 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;... | |
 | James L. Abrahamson - Secession - 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... | |
 | United States - 2003 - 356 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - United States - 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;... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - History - 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;... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has, not only not ceased, hut has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not...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;... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - United States - 2004 - 240 pages
...candidacy with the "House Divided" speech. Referring to growing sectional conflict, Lincoln predicted: In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall...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... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 288 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;... | |
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