 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 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...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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1891 - 138 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...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 cours*of ultimate extinction... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 130 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...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 ulti. mate extinction... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 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 of slavery will arrest the furthet spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | 1891 - 864 pages
...Jail; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It willxbecome all the one thing or all tne 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 course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...house to fall — 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...extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states<t)ld as well as new, North as well as South." y'he position... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...house to fall — 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...extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South." The position of... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Alabama - 1892 - 828 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 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, anil place it where the public mind shall rest m the belief that it is in... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 386 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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become lawful in all States, old as well as new, North as well... | |
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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.... 
