 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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will...  The Story of the Great Republic - Seite 163von Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 349 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Phillips Brooks - 1895 - 184 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." When the question came, he knew which thing he meant... | |
 | 1896 - 752 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1896 - 750 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." When the question came, he knew which thing he meant... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 542 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." When the question came, he knew which thing he meant... | |
 | 1899 - 542 Seiten
...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 expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." When the question came, he knew which thing he meant... | |
 | Spenser Wilkinson - 1900 - 488 Seiten
...divided against itself," he said, " cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall, but I expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or the other." ., In 1859 the tension of feeling on the slavery question... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1900 - 452 Seiten
...This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free ; " the man who said, "I do not expect the house to fall, but I expect it will cease to be divided " — Abraham Lincoln of Illinois — God's especial instrument for wisdom of choice and American nationality,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1903 - 796 Seiten
...divided against itself," he said, " cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall, but I expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." Douglas found him a very uncomfortable antagonist,... | |
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