| Frances Campbell Sparhawk - 1907 - 364 pages
...that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has continually 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 320 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...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... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1902 - 186 pages
...in Illinois, he made this memorable and.prophetic utterance: "In'my opinion, it (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... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 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 permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union... | |
| Louis P. Masur - History - 1999 - 562 pages
...and division stretching beyond that of sectional conflict alone: In my opinion, [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 union... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.... | |
| Carville Earle - Reference - 1992 - 588 pages
...course of action laid out by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858: In my opinion, it [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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a cm/5 shall have been reached, and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently halfslave and halt- free. I do not expect the... | |
| Teun A. van Dijk - Business & Economics - 1997 - 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. (1983: 3) The first paragraph creates a temporal and spatial setting, then develops a 'pattern of temporal... | |
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