 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 296 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new—North as well as South." To such a distinct and commanding voice,... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 344 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 till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new, North as... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - History - 2004 - 240 pages
...the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it ... in [the] course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." Lincoln explained that a vast Slave Power... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 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. Despite every promise that Kansas-Nebraska... | |
 | Kenneth C. Davis - History - 2009 - 717 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. Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal?... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...of them. In his speech at Springfield to the convention which nominated him for the Senate, he said: "In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall...the course of ultimate extinction. or its advocates will push it foncard till it shall become alike lawful in ail the States, — old as well as new. North... | |
 | China - 1989 - 460 pages
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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... 
