 | Glenn M. Linden - History - 2001 - 280 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. . . . Our cause, then, must be intrusted... | |
 | Richard J. Jensen - History - 2001 - 212 pages
...half slave and half free." Either the opponents of slavery would put it on the course to 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." The Republican party emerged in 1 856 as... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 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. This doctrine seemed, at that time, astonishing... | |
 | Don Harrison Doyle - Political Science - 2002 - 152 pages
...Divided speech: This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ... 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.1'1 Central to this view was the idea that slavery... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - History - 2003 - 132 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. — From John G. Nicolay and John Hay, editors,... | |
 | William Edward Leuchtenburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 426 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. With these opening lines, Lincoln not only... | |
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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... 
