| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...that 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...passed. ' 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... | |
| Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...that 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...one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of t-lavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the... | |
| Stephen Arnold Douglas - Slavery - 1860 - 24 pages
...the party. I will read a single extract from that speech : "In my opinion, it (the slavery agitation) will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this Government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
| Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...quotation and all (laughter). I give his exact language : " In my opinion it [the slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...speech at Springfield to the Convention, which nominated him for the Senate, he said : "In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. "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... | |
| Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...distinguished Republican standard-bearer in these words : " In my opinion it (the Slavery agitation) will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. ' A House divided against itself cannot stand.' X believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and h*lf fr*e. I do not expect ihe House... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...operation of that policy, that agitation had only not ceased, but had constantly augmented." " I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." "I do not expect the... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...broad in its abolitionism as to cover the whole ground. " In my opinion it [the slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been rea-ched...passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand/ I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...that 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...and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.'7 I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect... | |
| 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, ' A House divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the House... | |
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