 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition... | |
 | 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." Now you all see, from that quotation, I did... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 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...extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it 'hall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South." There... | |
 | 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...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States— old as well as new, North... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states — old as well as new, North... | |
 | 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...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. It will... 
