 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....  American History - Page 362by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1909 - 565 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 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 — place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 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 will rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that 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 new, North as well as South. that, if any one man choose to enslave another,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that 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 new, North as well as South." In this brief statement, Mr. Lincoln sot forth... | |
 | Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 442 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 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 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... | |
 | Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 428 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 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... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 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... | |
 | Mountague Bernard - Great Britain - 1870 - 558 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that 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 new, North as well as South."1 In the South itself the contest had not failed... | |
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