 | New England - 1885 - 504 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in a 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 as well as South." These were prophetic words ; and they... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1886 - 804 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...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,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." * He then proceeded to lay bare and closely... | |
 | Ovando James Hollister - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 570 pages
...Lincoln had spoken at the State Convention of the Republicans, saying : " 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." To this conclusion five years of agitation... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1861 - 594 pages
...arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South.' In his more memorable controversies with... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 928 pages
...arrest the further spread of it, and 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, old as well as new, North as well as South." To the pro-slavery, sensitive, prejudiced,... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but is constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - United States - 1887 - 252 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...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,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 732 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...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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1887 - 476 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief tint it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the ,-i. •!>•-., old as well »s new, No'th as well aa South " The course of Mr. Douglas having... | |
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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.... 
