 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...the fifth year since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object and confident promise of pulling an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Here is the famous doctrine of the " irrepressible... | |
 | Mountague Bernard - Great Britain - 1870 - 542 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." 1 In the South itself the contest had not... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...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 " (A). In 1865 the status of Slavery was formally... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 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... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall: but I 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." , Mr. Lincoln's demonstration of the tendency... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 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." Similar views were frequently expressed by... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 754 pages
...do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all oue thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery...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,... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1875 - 756 pages
...hand : " If we could first know where we arc and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates wiM push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; but I do expect 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... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...divided—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 extension."... | |
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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.... 
