 | Literature - 1887 - 984 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... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall : but I expect it'will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of 1t, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 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 of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 754 pages
...do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all oue thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...divided—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 extension."... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1877 - 974 pages
...house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or «// the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or, ito<i,/(waiej will put it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, «/</as well... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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 of slavery will arrest the further*~spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
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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.... 
