 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
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 508 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... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 508 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... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 508 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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1884 - 503 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 shall... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 195 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... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 526 pages
...end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not cased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will...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... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 128 pages
...whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...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... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1887
...slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but is constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease...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 Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 668 pages
...much : " 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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 357 pages
...Convention : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are drifting, we could better know 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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