 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
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...object and confident promise of putting an end to the slaverv 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 house... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 320 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 house... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1902 - 186 pages
...in Illinois, he made this memorable and.prophetic utterance: "In'my opinion, it (slavery agitation) will not cease until a "crisis shall have been reached...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...Lincoln : "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 permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union... | |
 | Louis P. Masur - History - 1999 - 562 pages
...and division stretching beyond that of sectional conflict alone: In my opinion, [slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...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 - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...agitation has not only not 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 can not stand.' I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...agitation has not only not 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 can not stand.' I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.... | |
 | Carville Earle - Reference - 1992 - 588 pages
...course of action laid out by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858: In my opinion, it [slavery agitation] will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached,...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, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a cm/5 shall have been reached, and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently halfslave and halt- free. I do not expect the... | |
 | Teun A. van Dijk - Business & Economics - 1997 - 372 pages
...we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated,...passed. A House divided against itself cannot stand. (1983: 3) The first paragraph creates a temporal and spatial setting, then develops a 'pattern of temporal... | |
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