 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...do not expect the union to be dissolved, 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." These will serve as samples, or guides, for... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 786 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...or its advocates will push it forward till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, north as well as south." Similar views were... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 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...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... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 828 pages
...since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy,...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 - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...gradually subside with the wind. "The agitation of the slavery question," he said, " will notecase until a crisis shall have been reached and passed....it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new — North as well as South." i Caviling Greeley still claimed, in I860,... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis has been reached and passed. ' A house divided against...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South."(4 ) His friends were startled. " It will never... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis has been reached and passed. . A house divided against...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. "(') His friends were startled. " It will never... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...Lincoln and Douglas Debates, p. 9. 3 Nicolay aiul Hay, vol. ii. p. 130. * Hermlon, pp. 397 and 400. passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.'...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." ' No Republican of prominence and ability... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...Douglas at Chicago, July 9th, Lincoln and Douglas Debates, p. 9. ' Nicolay and Hay, vol. ii. p. 136. passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.'...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." ' No Republican of prominence and ability... | |
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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... 
