 | Andrew J. Schiff - 2008 - 269 páginas
...speech, declaring that the Union will "cease to be divided." He also suggested that it "will become all 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... | |
 | David A. Reidy, Walter J. Riker - 2008 - 259 páginas
...Massachusetts Press: 1984); p. 100. 'house divided' speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that "[slavery's] 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;" if anyone doubted this, Lincoln suggested... | |
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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... 
