![]() Have we no tendency to the latter condition? It will become all one thing, or all the other.Įither 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 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. 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. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. 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. 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. President and Gentlemen of the Convention. Illinois Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois June 16, 1858 Douglas and any Republicans who might think of supporting Douglas. ![]() The speech was aimed at Senator Stephen A. On the previous day the Convention had taken the unprecedented move of naming Lincoln their candidate for the Senate. Lincoln spoke at the close of the Republican State Convention.
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