 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 become all one thing, or all the other. Either...  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidentsby United States. President - 1922 - 7116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Don Harrison Doyle - Political Science - 2002 - 152 pages
...speech: This government cannot endure permanently half slave and 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,... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...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,... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - History - 2003 - 132 pages
...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;... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...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 ... in the course of ultimate extinction or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall... | |
 | William Edward Leuchtenburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 426 pages
...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;... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Kenneth C. Davis - History - 2009 - 717 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...prospect for us" (CW2:3 1 8). Or again, from the House Divided speech: Either the opponents of slavery, will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new— North... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - History - 2004 - 240 pages
...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 ... in [the] course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 296 pages
...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 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;... | |
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