 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 572 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 — place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it it in... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1862 - 554 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 — place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...possible; the terms of which are thus stated by Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN : "Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...that it is in the course of ultimate extinction : or /Vs advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old 09 well... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1863 - 308 pages
...arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or, its advocates...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." This speech was interpreted by the Southerners... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1863 - 284 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 will rest in the belief that it is in a course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 pages
...do not expect the 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." This almost prophetic statement, from one... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 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 course of ultimate extinction,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 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...it 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?... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 206 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...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... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...do not expect the 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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." This almost prophetic statement, from one... | |
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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... 
