 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either 11 tlie opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either 11 the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place 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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 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 will rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 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 will rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all another. Either the opponeuis of 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. that, if any one man choose to enslave another,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." In this brief statement, Mr. Lincoln sot forth... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." In this brief statement, Mr. Lincoln set forth... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." In this brief statement, Mr. Lincoln set forth... | |
 | Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 428 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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 442 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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
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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.... 
