 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1892 - 930 páginas
...were : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...object, and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation. Under the operation ofthat policy, that agitation has not onlv not ceased, but... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 páginas
...whither we are tending, we could then judge better what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...Under the operation of that policy, that agitation had not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - 1989 - 340 páginas
...stated what was to become the theme of the Republican party for the next two years: We are far now into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with...Under the operation of that policy, that agitation not only has not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 páginas
...which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object and with the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 páginas
...which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object and with the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 páginas
...Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth...augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a cm/5 shall have been reached, and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe... | |
 | Carville Earle - 1992 - 588 páginas
...course of action laid out by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858: In my opinion, it [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... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 1996 - 302 páginas
...kind of resolution required. The Great Compromise (of which Clay was a major participant) had as its "avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation." But the conflict had "not ceased" and had actually been "constantly augmented." It would not cease... | |
 | Teun A. van Dijk - 1997 - 372 páginas
...we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated,...passed. A House divided against itself cannot stand. (1983: 3) The first paragraph creates a temporal and spatial setting, then develops a 'pattern of temporal... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1997 - 502 páginas
...(1858l If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated [Kansas- Nebraska Act] with the avowed SOURCE: Theodore Parker, "The Nebraska Question," Additional... | |
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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.... 
