 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873
...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." Similar views were frequently expressed by... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Slavery - 1874 - 754 pages
...do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all oue thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Slavery - 1875 - 756 pages
...hand : " If we could first know where we arc and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates wiM push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - Kansas - 1875 - 692 pages
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; 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 forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...of themselves gradually subside with the wind. " The agitation of the slavery question," he said, " will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as ne\v — North as well as South." ' Caviling Greeley still claimed, in 1860,... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago - 1881 - 812 pages
...only not closed, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis has been reached and passed, A house divided against itself...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North, as well as South." This was uttered, as Mr. Greeley says, by... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 812 pages
...do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect that 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." This was uttered, as Mr. Greeley says, by... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 274 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." These prophetic words cost him the position... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 604 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." Douglas arrived at Chicago on the 9th of... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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. I have always hated slavery, I think, as much... | |
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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... 
