 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....  Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President - Page 214by Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 516 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." No words so daring, no such unequivocal statement... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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.' He had taken up an unmistakeable position.... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...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 course of ultimate extinction,...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States,—old as well as new, North as well as South. Have wo no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...opponents of slavery will arrest the further sgread of it and pkce it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction,...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." No words so daring, no such unequivocal statement... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 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 and new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 800 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 and new—north as well as south." On October 25, 1858, Gov. Seward, in a political... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 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.' " " There you find that Mr. Lincoln lays... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 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. Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 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." Douglas arrived in Chicago on the 9th of... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 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 lawfiil in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South." Douglas arrived in Chicago... | |
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