| James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 556 pages
...distinguished Republican standard-bearer in these words : " In my opinion it [the slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...can not endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all... | |
| James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...party. I will read a single extract from that speech : " In my opinion, it [the slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...believe this government can not endure permanently, hah' slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided.... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 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...slavery will 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;... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...free. I do not expect the House to fall, but I do expect It will cease to be divided. It will hecome all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest tn the helief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction,... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction... | |
| Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...free. 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...slavery will 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,... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half slave arid half free. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...slavery will 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,... | |
| Stephen Arnold Douglas - Slavery - 1860 - 24 pages
...free. I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become nil one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of...slavery will 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 uliinuite extinction;... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 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 of slavery will arrest the spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course... | |
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