 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...down, Abe launched into the speech, which was about the problem of slavery. "In my opinion," he said, "it will not cease until a crisis shall have been...passed. '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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...senatorial contest with Douglas. Speaking of the Nebraska policy, he said, on accepting nomination: We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated, * Nicolay and Hay, op. cit., I, pp. 391-2. with the avowed object and confident promise of putting... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...purposes: 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...augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a cris1s shall have been reached, and passed— "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe... | |
 | Fred Hobson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 312 pages
...and division stretching beyond that of sectional conflict alone: In my opinion, [slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. "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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and lunc to do it. We arc now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed ohject and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy,... | |
 | C. Bradley Thompson - Abolitionists - 324 pages
...freedom. 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...ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it w/7/ not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. 212 "A house divided against itself... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...made the entire quotation from that speech that I can make it from memory. I used this language: "AVe are now far into the fifth year since a policy was...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of this policy, that agitatton has not only not ceased,... | |
 | Vincent Virga, Alan Brinkley - United States - 2004 - 428 pages
...solution. But Lincoln, looking back over the nearly five years since Douglas's policy had been enacted ("initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation"), concluded— correctly— that "agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented." And... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object, and with the confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 1114 pages
...followed an avowed policy of ending agitation over slavery, only to stir that agitation even more: "In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
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We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.... 
