 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
 | 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;... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - Reference - 2003 - 344 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,... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...its opponents would "arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction," or its advocates would succeed in foisting it on the whole nation.12 In his debates with Douglas, Lincoln made his moral... | |
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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 . . . place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 784 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...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 absolute extinction,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 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...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,... | |
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...would be dissolved. But he believed that it would cease to be divided—it would become all one 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 course of ultimate extinction; or... | |
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...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 of slavery ivill arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief... | |
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...Hayne: "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. "We are now far into the fifth...the other. "Either the opponents of slavery, will... place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction;... | |
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