 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
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...Lincoln and Douglas Debates, p. 9. 3 Nicolay aiul Hay, vol. ii. p. 130. * Hermlon, pp. 397 and 400. passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.'...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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...Douglas at Chicago, July 9th, Lincoln and Douglas Debates, p. 9. ' Nicolay and Hay, vol. ii. p. 136. passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.'...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...16, 1858. F 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 Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 pages
...follows: — "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... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 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... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...17, 1858 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - Books - 1894 - 462 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...17, 1858 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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