 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 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 . . . place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...stand." N 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as SouthLincoln only meant by this that Kansas-Nebraska,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 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... | |
 | Ged Martin - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...interpreted as another forward step by an aggressive slave power: 'Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.' If the Southern-dominated... | |
 | John Chandler Griffin - History - 2004 - 242 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...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;... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 784 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 the course of absolute extinction,... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...would be dissolved. But he believed that it would cease to be divided—it would become all one or 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 course of ultimate extinction; or... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 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 ivill arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief... | |
 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 353 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." Mr. Douglas at once made this proposition... | |
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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. It will... 
