 | 1891 - 1020 páginas
...the fifth year since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object and confident promise of pulling an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Here is the famous doctrine of the " irrepressible... | |
 | Mountague Bernard - 1870 - 542 páginas
...I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect that 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." 1 In the South itself the contest had not... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - 1871 - 800 páginas
...not expect the house to fall ; but I do " expect that 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 " (A). In 1865 the status of Slavery was formally... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1872 - 690 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." In this brief statement, Mr. Lincoln set forth... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - 1872 - 568 páginas
...dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall: but I 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." , Mr. Lincoln's demonstration of the tendency... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 752 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." Similar views were frequently expressed by... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1874 - 754 páginas
...do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all oue thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery...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,... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1875 - 756 páginas
...hand : " If we could first know where we arc 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 wiM push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 páginas
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; 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... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - 1875 - 278 páginas
...divided—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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extension."... | |
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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.... 
