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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 will... "
Life of Stephen A. Douglas, United States Senator from Illinois: With His ... - Page 151
by Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 187 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...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...of 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,...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 43

United States - 1859 - 406 pages
...dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it to 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,...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon ...

Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...platforms. He there lays down a proposition so broad in its abolitionism as to cover the whole ground. " In my opinion it [the slavery agitation] will not...the 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...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...the 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...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...the 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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...Republican standard-bearer in these words : " In my opinion it (the Slavery agitation) will not ceaee until a crisis shall have been reached and passed,...Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is m the course of ultimate extinction,...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...— I do not expect the house to fall— but I do expect it will cease to he divided. It will hecome all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North...
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The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of Abram [sic] Lincoln: Together ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half slave arid half free. 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 till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North...
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Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...divided against Itself cannot stand.' I believe thle government can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the House to fall, but...other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of H, and place U where Ihe public mind ahull rest In the belÍ€Í that It Is...
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