 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1877 - 974 pages
...house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or «// the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or, ito<i,/(waiej will put it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, «/</as well... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South. " Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South. " Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...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, or its advocates...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South. "Have we no tendency to the latter condition'?... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North, as well as South." This was uttered, as Mr. Greeley says, by... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 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 course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 592 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new — north as well as south." Douglas arrived at Chicago on the 9th of... | |
 | 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South. I have always hated slavery, I think, as much... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 586 pages
...cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents rf slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new — north as well as south." Lincoln's speech at Springfield, and on... | |
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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. It will... 
