 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
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 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 - 426 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... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1888 - 802 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... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 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 will... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...year tince a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of pulling (m cud to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that...will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the furthet spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 828 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... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 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 Ihe 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 - 1892 - 930 pages
...putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation ofthat policy, that agitation has not onlv not ceased, but has constantly augmented". In my opinion...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 - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...gradually subside with the wind. "The agitation of the slavery question," he said, " will notecase until a crisis shall have been reached and passed....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 carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis has 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 further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
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