 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new, North as well as South." Then he proceeded to point out that the... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, ... 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. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?"... | |
 | Armstead L. Robinson - History - 2005 - 392 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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.5 Although Lincoln lost the Illinois senatorial... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 150 pages
...house to fall. ' of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Although Lincoln lost his bid for the US... | |
 | John Ryskamp - Law - 2007 - 269 pages
...the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." This comment is also a statement that involuntary... | |
 | Norton Garfinkle - Political Science - 2008 - 240 pages
...policy of compromise, the slavery agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.18 Because the moral issues surrounding the... | |
 | Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006 - 3 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. (Fehrenbacher, 1989a: 426) Stephen Douglas,... | |
 | James L. Huston - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 244 pages
...either slavery would be restricted to its present limits and put on the path of eventual 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." To this, Douglas had an eloquent rejoinder:... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in 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. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?53... | |
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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.... 
