 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...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... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have heen reached and passed. " A house divided against itself...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... | |
 | 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...forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South." That ~was my sentiment at that time. In connection... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...free. 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 forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States— old as well as new, North... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 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, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...free. 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 forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states — old as well as new, North... | |
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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.... 
