 | Orators - 1899 - 542 pages
...that policy, that agitation not only has 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 542 pages
...that policy, that agitation not only has 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... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...that policy, that agitation not only has 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... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - History - 1900 - 386 pages
...to his speech on slavery at Springfield, Illinois (June, 1858), wherein 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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmen'ed. 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... | |
 | Alexander McDonald Thomson - Wisconsin - 1900 - 876 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.' 1 believe this government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 308 pages
...compromise, the slavery 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 halfslave and half-free. I do not expect the Union... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 526 pages
...that policy, that agitation not only has 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... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1901 - 372 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... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 538 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 i-annot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
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We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and 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 augmented.... 
