 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
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 812 pages
...do 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;... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 604 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... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 640 pages
...I do 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,... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1883 - 612 pages
...opening : "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,... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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;... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 540 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;... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1884 - 530 pages
...since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy,...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... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not cased, 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 extinction,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 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... | |
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