 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...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 we.ll as South." As the reader watched for the effect... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 386 pages
...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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become lawful in all States, old as well as new, North as well... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 76 pages
...dissolved. 1 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. — [From a speech accepting nomination... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...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." Under ordinary circumstances, evocation of... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Salmon Portland Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 520 pages
...the opponents of slavery, will . . . place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States. . . ." Basler, Collected Works, 2:461-62. TO JAY COOKE Autograph letter. Jay Cooke Papers,... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...a national policy (pushed by Douglas) opening up all the Territories to slavery. Lincoln had said: We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.327 It is further indicative of the limitations... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...I do not expect the house to fall; hut I do expect that it will cease to he divided. It will hecome all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents...or its advocates will push it forward till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...— 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. As he continued this speech, Lincoln charged... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin - History - 2000 - 120 pages
...He argued that "a house divided against itself cannot stand. . . . 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." Notwithstanding Douglas's efforts to dismiss... | |
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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... 
