 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... 
