 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...possible; the terms of which are thus stated by Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN : "Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction : or /Vs advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old 09 well... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...free. 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 will rest in the belief that it is in a course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...endure 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 that it will cease...the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 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,... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...endure 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 that it will cease...the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all tjie other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 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,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 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,... | |
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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. It will... 
