 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...  Elements of Composition for Secondary Schools - Seite 259von Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 593 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Ryskamp - 2007 - 284 Seiten
...— 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." This comment is also a statement that involuntary... | |
 | George McKenna - 2007 - 454 Seiten
...calling for abolition. But here is how Lincoln parsed his own words: "Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new— North as well as South." Then he added: "Have we no... | |
 | 532 Seiten
...the house to fell ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all the one thing or the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it further until it becomes alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as... | |
 | Sabine Freitag - 2006 - 510 Seiten
...dissolved - 1 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...slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction;... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 Seiten
...it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinc tion; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in nll the States, old as well as new, North as well as South." He put together this and that circumstance... | |
 | James D. Best - 2008 - 333 Seiten
...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...it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new — North as well as South." Evarts plopped the book back onto the table.... | |
 | Carter G. Woodson - 2008 - 414 Seiten
...— 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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinetion... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 Seiten
...— 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...slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction;... | |
 | Andrew J. Schiff - 2008 - 269 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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