 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
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 526 pages
...: "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...operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not cased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884
...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...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... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 508 pages
...and 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...policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 508 pages
...and 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...policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 508 pages
...and 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...policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1884 - 503 pages
...were : " 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...object, and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 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...Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre, Benjamin Le Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 524 pages
...and whither we are tending, we could better jud'_ r e what to do, and how to do it. We are now fur into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated...object, and confident promise of putting an end to the -lavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased,... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 526 pages
...broad in its abolitionism as to cover the whole ground. " 'In my opinion it (the slavery agitation) will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I believe this Government can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 88 pages
...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but... | |
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