 | Jesse Truesdell Peck - United States - 1868 - 774 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest iu the belief that' it is in tlie 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." Mr. Seward made his famous announcement concerning... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...the fifth year since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object and confident promise of pulling an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Here is the famous doctrine of the " irrepressible... | |
 | 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." 1 In the South itself the contest had not... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 984 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, "t Then followed his demonstration, through... | |
 | 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, " old as well as new, North as well as South " (A). In 1865 the status of Slavery was formally... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...Convention: — 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...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 - 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South." , Mr. Lincoln's demonstration of the tendency... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 674 pages
...arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates...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... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 676 pages
...arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in t/ie belief thai it i* in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates...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... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...arrest the further spread of 1t, and place 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 1t shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." Mr.... | |
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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... 
