 We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented....  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 386edited by - 1887Full view - About this book
 | James Baldwin - Diligence - 1904 - 298 pages
...into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident LINCOLN — 13 promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...passed. '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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
...quoted one particular part of it so often that I think I can recollect it. It runs, I think, as follows: We are now far into the fifth year since a policy...passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe that this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 350 pages
...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 362 pages
...putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not 25 only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In...passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not 30 expect the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 454 pages
...that agitation has not only ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. It will become all... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...blunder. "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. , I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...Convention: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Ijlo_npt^expect the Union... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...blunder. "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...wrong. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation....passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 322 pages
...declared his hostility to any more slave States in this language: Under the operation of that policy the agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...become all one thing, or all the other. Either the oppoJ nents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall... | |
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