 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...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 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 course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | United States - 1859 - 424 pages
...the house to fall ; but I do expect it to cease to be divided. It will become all 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 course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...house to fall— but I do expect it will cease to he divided. It will hecome all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 476 pages
...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...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...Government cannot endure permanently half slave arid half free. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...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 of slavery will arrest...that it is in 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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...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...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States— old as well... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...from my speech —" 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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...from my speech — "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 the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the spread of it and place it where the public mind skall rest, in $ie belief ;liat it is in the course... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...from my speech — "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 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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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. It will... 
