| 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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."... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as ne\v — North as well as South." ' Caviling Greeley still claimed, in 1860,... | |
| 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South. " Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South. " Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
| 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... | |
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