 We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....  Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson - Page 145by William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 540 pages
...and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...were : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...object, and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...and whither we are tending, we could better jud'_ r e what to do, and how to do it. We are now fur into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated...object, and confident promise of putting an end to the -lavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased,... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...broad in its abolitionism as to cover the whole ground. " 'In my opinion it (the slavery agitation) will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I believe this Government can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 928 pages
...since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy,..." A house, divided against itself, cannot stand." I believe that this government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
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