 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 páginas
...one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, ... 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?"... | |
 | Armstead L. Robinson - 2005 - 392 páginas
...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.5 Although Lincoln lost the Illinois senatorial... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - 2007 - 150 páginas
...promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation "/ do not expect the house to fall. ' of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased,...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Although Lincoln lost his bid for the US... | |
 | Norton Garfinkle - 2008 - 240 páginas
...down the gauntlet to the slave states: Under the operation of the policy of compromise, the slavery agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.18 Because the moral issues surrounding the... | |
 | Norman Schofield - 2006 - 3 páginas
...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. (Fehrenbacher, 1989a: 426) Stephen Douglas,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...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?... | |
 | James L. Huston - 2007 - 244 páginas
...either slavery would be restricted to its present limits and put on the path of eventual 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." To this, Douglas had an eloquent rejoinder:... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 páginas
...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?53... | |
 | John Ryskamp - 2007 - 269 páginas
...the fifth year since a policy [the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, dealing with territories and slavery] was initiated with the avowed object, and confident...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." This comment is also a statement that involuntary... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2007 - 176 páginas
...myself that anything could fall from my lips in praise of such a land." Abraham Lincoln, June 1858 "In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." Senator Stephen Douglas, First Lincoln-Douglas... | |
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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... 
