 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 276 pages
...house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all the one thing or the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South." The position of... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 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... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - History - 2001 - 280 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;... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 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...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?... | |
 | Don Harrison Doyle - Political Science - 2002 - 152 pages
...Divided speech: This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ... 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.1'1 Central to this view was the idea that slavery... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - History - 2003 - 132 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. — From John G. Nicolay and John Hay, editors,... | |
 | William Edward Leuchtenburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 426 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. With these opening lines, Lincoln not only... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 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 ... in the course of ultimate extinction or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 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;... | |
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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.... 
