 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1884 - 530 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." Douglas arrived in Chicago on the 9th of... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - 1884 - 532 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...advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawfiil in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South." Douglas arrived in Chicago... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 536 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...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,... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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,... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1884 - 716 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 of slavery will arrest the further sgread of it and pkce it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1884 - 266 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 farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | David W. Lusk - 1884 - 586 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 of slavery will arrest the further spread of it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 752 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 of slavery will arrest the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 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 ... in [the] course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is 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 as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition?... | |
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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... 
