 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 3861887Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2007 - 176 pages
...myself that anything could fall from my lips in praise of such a land." Abraham Lincoln, June 1858 "In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis...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;... | |
 | Sabine Freitag - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 510 pages
...dissolved - 1 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...extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new - North as well as South* Lincoln's speech... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...expect the house to fall— but I do expect it to cease to be divided. " He went on, "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;... | |
 | 532 pages
...the house to fell ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all the 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,... | |
 | Carter G. Woodson - Social Science - 2008 - 414 pages
...terrible evil. "Under the operation of that policy," said he, "that agitation has not only not eeascd, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will...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 extinetion... | |
 | James D. Best - Fiction - 2008 - 333 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;... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...Free. 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,... | |
 | Andrew J. Schiff - Sports & Recreation - 2008 - 269 pages
...speech, declaring that the Union will "cease to be divided." He also suggested that it "will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it ... or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful... | |
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