 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
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...and confident purpose of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy it has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slaver)' will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1899 - 478 pages
...Buchanan on the question of forcing the slave Lecompton constitution on Kansas. The Republicans tried " 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 where the public mind shall... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 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 farther spread of it and place it where the public mind shall... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...senator. 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... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...paragraphs: "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 Newton Thorpe - United States - 1901 - 664 pages
...beginning: "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... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 pages
...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. \\'e are now far into the fifth year since a policy was...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 - United States - 1903 - 394 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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