 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 páginas
...his famous "House Divided" speech on June 16, 1858, Lincoln argued that the agitation over slavery, will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new— North as well as South.8 Americans are not warring today over the... | |
 | Harold Blodgett - 2005 - 660 páginas
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 | John W. Burgess - 2005 - 353 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." Mr. Douglas at once made this proposition... | |
 | Martha Zoller - 2005 - 209 páginas
...speech, Lincoln stated plainly that one or the other would prevail: "Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." During the mid-nineteenth century, Lincoln... | |
 | 2005 - 480 páginas
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 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 197 páginas
...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...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, — old as well as new, North as well as South." Then he proceeded to point out that the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 2005 - 672 páginas
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 | 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... | |
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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... 
