 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
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 560 pages
...remarks on this occasion, in the following letter (a translation by the hand of the recipient): 1" We are now far into the fifth year since a policy...that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, hut has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 pages
...said : " 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...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this Government cannot endure CHAI-. vni. permanently, half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...said : " 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...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this Government cannot endure CHAP. vin. permanently, half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 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...crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divfded against itself cannot stand.' I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently, half slave... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 272 pages
...thus:— " 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...constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand." I... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now fur into the fifth year tince a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of pulling (m cud to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1892 - 618 pages
...said: " 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...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...began : " 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...not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and ' Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. ii. p. 179. 1 Douglas at Chicago, July 9th, Lincoln and Douglas... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...began: "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...not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and ' Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. ii. p. 179. * Douglas at Chicago, July 9th, Lincoln and Douglas... | |
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