 | George McKenna - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 454 pages
...calling for abolition. But here is how Lincoln parsed his own words: "Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new— North as well as South." Then he added: "Have we no... | |
 | 532 pages
...the house to fell ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all the one thing or the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it further until it becomes alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as... | |
 | Sabine Freitag - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 510 pages
...dissolved - 1 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 the opponents...slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction;... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...— 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 the opponents...slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction;... | |
 | Carter G. Woodson - Social Science - 2008 - 414 pages
...— 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 the opponents...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinetion... | |
 | Andrew J. Schiff - Sports & Recreation - 2008 - 269 pages
...speech, declaring that the Union will "cease to be divided." He also suggested that it "will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it ... or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful... | |
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A house divided against itself cannot stand." 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.... 
