 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.  Political Science Quarterly - Page 4711887Full view - About this book
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...Although so widely copied and commented upon, the following extract from the address is here given: "'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I...believe this government can not endure permanently half-slave and half- free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 828 pages
...that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...gradually subside with the wind. "The agitation of the slavery question," he said, " will notecase until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...that agitation has not onlv not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A. house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1892 - 618 pages
...that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 pages
...that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...that agitation has not only not ceased, but has continually augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed....not 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 that... | |
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