 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 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...advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawfiil in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South." Douglas arrived in Chicago... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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...of 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,... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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...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,... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 144 pages
...whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." This was a bold speech ; but Lincoln was not... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 456 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." This declaration was followed by a lucid... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...expect the House to fall, but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all the one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new, North as well as South." And Mr. Johnson tells us that he added... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 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 a course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Springfield Republican - 1885 - 444 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is hi the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...remarkable speech — which at once attracted the attention of the Country — Mr. Lincoln said : " We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." * He then proceeded to lay bare and closely... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1886 - 804 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.' " * * In this speech to the Republican State... | |
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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.... 
