 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 become all one thing, or all the other. Either...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 161by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 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...will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...the fifth year since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object and confident promise of pulling an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of...will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 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...will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall hare been reached and passed. " A house divided against...will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1875 - 756 pages
...hand : " If we could first know where we arc and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...of themselves gradually subside with the wind. " The agitation of the slavery question," he said, " will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 pages
...promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where .the public mind... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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...will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
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