 | Ovando James Hollister - 1886 - 570 páginas
...Lincoln had spoken at the State Convention of the Republicans, saying : " 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." To this conclusion five years of agitation... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1887 - 204 páginas
...slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but is constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." The blast of the trumpet gave no uncertain... | |
 | 1887 - 732 páginas
...— 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. 1 That slavery, through restriction and the... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." To the pro-slavery, sensitive, prejudiced,... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 800 páginas
...much : " 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." To the pro-slavery, sensitive, prejudiced,... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1888 - 802 páginas
...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,...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.'" * * In this speech to the Republican State... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 páginas
...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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 páginas
...dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall, but 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 course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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.... 
