 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 352 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." Mr. Douglas at once made this proposition... | |
 | Martha Zoller - History - 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 196 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... | |
 | Armstead L. Robinson - Confederate States of America - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James L. Huston - Democracy - 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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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... 
