 | 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... | |
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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.... 
