 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 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, "t Then followed his demonstration, through... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...not expect the house to fall ; but I do " expect that 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 " (A). In 1865 the status of Slavery was formally... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 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." In this brief statement, Mr. Lincoln set forth... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall: but I 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." , Mr. Lincoln's demonstration of the tendency... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 674 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." It was a thing impossible, that the South... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 676 pages
...arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in t/ie belief thai it i* 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." It was a thing impossible, that the South... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...arrest the further spread of 1t, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till 1t shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." Mr.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, north as well as south." Similar views were frequently expressed by... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 754 pages
...do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all oue thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new,... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North... | |
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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.... 
