 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
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...a national policy (pushed by Douglas) opening up all the Territories to slavery. Lincoln had said: We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy...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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated, * Nicolay and Hay, op. cit., I, pp. 391-2. with the avowed object and confident promise of putting...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... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...friends behind closed doors to gauge their reaction, and its words were terse, precise, and cutting. 213 We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy...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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has, not only not ceased, hut has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not...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... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - History - 2004 - 240 pages
...candidacy with the "House Divided" speech. Referring to growing sectional conflict, Lincoln predicted: In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall...will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it ... in [the] course of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 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... | |
 | John Chandler Griffin - History - 2004 - 242 pages
...Illinois, when he warned that the spread of slavery must be immediately checked and eventually abolished: "In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis...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... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...Hayne: "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...will become all one thing, or all the other. "Either the opponents of slavery, will... place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy,...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... | |
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