 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....  Abraham Lincoln, a Character Sketch - Page 40by Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1899 - 116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...free. 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 where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1884 - 598 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 further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 144 pages
...not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against...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... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 444 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 hi... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 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 further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...expect the House to fall, but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all the 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... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 928 pages
...not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against...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... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1861 - 594 pages
...should .... I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1886 - 804 pages
...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 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... | |
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