«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.
\nWe 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.
\nUnder the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
\nIn my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.
\n«A house divided against itself cannot stand.»
\nI believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
\nI 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.
\nIt will become all one thing or all the other.
\nEither the opponents of 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 extinction; or its 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.»<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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