 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...Free. 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. In speaking of Stephen Douglas facing up... | |
 | Andrew J. Schiff - Sports & Recreation - 2008 - 269 pages
...one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it ... 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." While the late 1850s were a tempestuous time... | |
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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... 
