We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.... The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it - Página 132por Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 420 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 1110 páginas
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| Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...friends behind closed doors to gauge their reaction, and its words were terse, precise, and cutting. 213 We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy...passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
| Henry Withers - 2003 - 200 páginas
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| Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 páginas
...candidacy with the "House Divided" speech. Referring to growing sectional conflict, Lincoln predicted: In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall...passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the... | |
| Fred Hobson - 2003 - 312 páginas
...and division stretching beyond that of sectional conflict alone: In my opinion, [slavery agitation] will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached...passed. "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... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and lunc to do it. We arc now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed ohject and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy,... | |
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