 We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 161by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 pages
...stated what was to become the theme of the Republican party for the next two years: We are far now into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...Under the operation of that policy, that agitation not only has not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object and with the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object and with the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a cm/5 shall have been reached, and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe... | |
 | Carville Earle - Reference - 1992 - 588 pages
...course of action laid out by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858: In my opinion, it [slavery agitation] will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached,...passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
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