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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... "
Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) - Page 107
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Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America

Martha Zoller - Political Science - 2005 - 209 pages
...speech, Lincoln stated plainly that one or the other would prevail: "Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." During the mid-nineteenth century, Lincoln...
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Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A

Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new, North as well as South." Then he proceeded to point out that the...
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Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the ...

Armstead L. Robinson - History - 2005 - 392 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.5 Although Lincoln lost the Illinois senatorial...
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The Time of Slavery

Elizabeth Sirimarco - African Americans - 2007 - 150 pages
...promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation "/ do not expect the house to fall. ' of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased,...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Although Lincoln lost his bid for the US...
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The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive ...

Norton Garfinkle - Political Science - 2008 - 240 pages
...down the gauntlet to the slave states: Under the operation of the policy of compromise, the slavery agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.18 Because the moral issues surrounding the...
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Architects of Political Change: Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice ...

Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006
...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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South. (Fehrenbacher, 1989a: 426) Stephen Douglas,...
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Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the ...

Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 224 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." The opponents of slavery had prevailed...
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Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery

Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 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. The tendency toward slavery expansion was...
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Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality

James L. Huston - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 244 pages
...either slavery would be restricted to its present limits and put on the path of eventual 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." To this, Douglas had an eloquent rejoinder:...
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The Eminent Domain Revolt: Changing Perceptions in a New Constitutional Epoch

John Ryskamp - Law - 2007 - 269 pages
...the fifth year since a policy [the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, dealing with territories and slavery] was initiated with the avowed object, and confident...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." This comment is also a statement that involuntary...
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