 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
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...quote at length the whole paragraph in which the expressions which puzzle you occur. It is as follows: "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy...policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but constantly augmented. I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 150 pages
...excerpt of which follows. WE ARE NOW FAR INTO THE FIFTH YEAR since a policy [the KansasNebraska Act] was initiated with the avowed object, and confident...putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation "/ do not expect the house to fall. ' of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...are now far on in the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object, and with the confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation...under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but had constantly augmented. I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall... | |
 | Frank Moore - 2006 - 812 pages
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 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...read: "If we could first know where vie are, and iohilhervie 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, permanently half .v//cw and half 'free. I do not expect the... | |
 | Michael Knox Beran - History - 2007 - 521 pages
...Age senators: We are now in the fifth year, since a policy was initiated [that of Senator Douglas], with the avowed object, and confident promise, of...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... | |
 | Various - Reference - 2007 - 188 pages
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