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
| Mountague Bernard - Great Britain - 1870 - 542 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... | |
| Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...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... | |
| Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall hare been reached and passed. " A house divided against...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... | |
| Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 672 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." It was a thing impossible, that the South... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 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 set forth... | |
| 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... | |
| Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 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 it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 744 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." Similar views were frequently expressed by... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 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... | |
| Henry Wilson - Slavery - 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 will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the pul)lic mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
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