 | Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...expect the house to fall— but I do expect it to cease to be divided. " He went on, "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. " 8 Lincoln next spoke of what he perceived... | |
 | George McKenna - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 454 pages
...calling for abolition. But here is how Lincoln parsed his own words: "Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new— North as well as South." Then he added: "Have we no... | |
 | J. B. McClure - 2007 - 460 pages
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 | Robert G. Ingersoll - Literary Collections - 2007 - 516 pages
...the house to fell ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all the one thing or the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it further until it becomes alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinc tion; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in nll the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." He put together this and that circumstance... | |
 | James D. Best - Fiction - 2008 - 333 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." Evarts plopped the book back onto the table.... | |
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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... 
