 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 páginas
...Government could not endure permanently half slave and half free. " Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." Why then, hating slavery personally, and understanding... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 páginas
...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. (" House-dividedagainst-itself speech.") So... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 páginas
...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 and new, North as well as South." " It is true," interrupted Mr. Herndon, " but is... | |
 | John Moses - 1892 - 880 páginas
...house to fall — but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South." Before delivering this speech, Lincoln submitted... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 276 páginas
...house to fall — 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...extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it becomes alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South." The position of... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 530 páginas
...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." Then followed his demonstration, through the... | |
 | 1890 - 738 páginas
...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 ля South." This speech was very differently received... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 526 páginas
...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." . Then followed his demonstration, through... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 414 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1891 - 928 páginas
...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." This great speech made Mr. Lincoln President.... | |
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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... 
