 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 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 - 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:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2007 - 176 pages
...myself that anything could fall from my lips in praise of such a land." Abraham Lincoln, June 1858 "In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." Senator Stephen Douglas, First Lincoln-Douglas... | |
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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... 
