 | 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,... | |
 | Anon - 2006 - 280 páginas
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 | 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... | |
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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... 
