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427: 56: 40: 421: 491:. The nomination of Lincoln was the final item of business at the convention, which then broke for dinner, meeting again at 8 pm. "The evening session was mainly devoted to speeches", but the only speaker was Lincoln, whose address closed the convention, save for resolutions of thanks to the city of Springfield and others. His address was immediately published in full by newspapers, as a pamphlet, and in the published proceedings of the convention. It was the launching point of his unsuccessful campaign for the senatorial seat held by 576: 2687: 2699: 1500: 559:, under which the settlers in each new territory would decide their own status as a slave or free state; he had repeatedly asserted that the proper application of popular sovereignty would prevent slavery-induced conflict and would allow Northern and Southern states to resume their peaceful coexistence. Lincoln, however, responded that the 1189:
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois; including the preceding speeches of each, at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; also, the two great speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as carefully prepared by the reporters of
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While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress, a law case, involving the question of a negro's freedom ... was passing through the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; and both Nebraska Bill and lawsuit were brought to a decision in the same month of May, 1854. The Negro's name was
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had closed the door on Douglas's preferred option, leaving the Union with only two remaining outcomes: the country would inevitably become either all slave or all free. Now that the North and the South had come to hold distinct opinions on the question of slavery, and now that the issue had come to
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Either 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 lawful in all the States, old as well as new – North as well
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that whether the holding a negro in actual slavery in a free state, makes him free, as against the holder, the United States courts will not decide, but will leave to be decided by the courts of any slave state the negro may be forced into by the master. This point is made, not to be pressed
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the language too, of the Nebraska Act. On one occasion his exact language is, "except in cases where the power is restrained by the Constitution of the United States, the law of the State is supreme over the subject of slavery within its jurisdiction." In what
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to exclude slavery from its limits. And this may especially be expected if the doctrine of "care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up" shall gain upon the public mind sufficiently to give promise that such a decision can be maintained when
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While the opinion of ... Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case ... expressly declare that the Constitution of the United States neither permits congress nor a territorial legislature to exclude slavery from any United States territory, ...
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together, and we have another nice little niche, which we may, ere long, see filled with another Supreme Court decision, declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a
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states, "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." That is in response to the scribes' claim that "by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils." In the
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immediately ... the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other
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The nearest approach to the point of declaring the power of a state over slavery, is made by Judge Nelson. He approaches it more than once, using the precise idea, and
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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
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to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination – piece of
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probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown. We shall
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Taylor, Quentin P. (2020). "John Jay, The Federalist, and the Constitution". In Rakove, Jack N.; Sheehan, Colleen A. (eds.).
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Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the States. Welcome, or unwelcome, such decision
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opened all the national territory to slavery .... This ... had been provided for ... in the notable argument of "
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to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
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However and most relevantly, the expression was used repeatedly earlier in 1858 in discussions of
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David Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas Bailey: The American Pageant: Volume I: To 1877, p. 253.
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Proceedings of the Republican state convention, held at Springfield, Illinois, June 16th, 1858
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so to speak – compounded of the Nebraska doctrine, and the Dred Scott decision.
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permeate every other political question, the Union would soon no longer be able to function.
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Fehrenbacher, Don E. (1960). "The Origins and Purpose of Lincoln's 'House-Divided' Speech".
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Lincoln's goals were to differentiate himself from Douglas – the incumbent – and to voice a
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The expression "a house divided against itself" appears three times in the Bible. In the
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The "house divided" phrase had been used by Lincoln himself in another context in 1843.
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pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State
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Speech of Hon. Abram Lincoln before the Republican state convention, June 16, 1858
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wrote "when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves."
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question, precisely as the same question, as to the restraint on the power of the
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Famously, eight years before Lincoln's speech, during the Senate debate on the
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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had proclaimed: "A nation divided against itself cannot stand."
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will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in
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to declare whether or not the same constitution permits a
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I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half
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each party, and published at the times of their delivery
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was an address given by senatorial candidate and future
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is so restrained by the U.S. Constitution, is left an
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Lincoln's remarks in Springfield depict the danger of
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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Index

A house divided against itself, cannot stand
House (season 5)


Abraham Lincoln
Early life and career
Family
Health
Sexuality
Patent
Spot Resolutions
Political career, 1849–1861
Lincoln–Douglas debates
Views on slavery
Views on religion
Electoral history
Presidency
Transition
1st inauguration
Hannibal Hamlin
American Civil War
The Union
Emancipation Proclamation
Ten percent plan
13th Amendment
2nd inauguration
Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction
1860
Convention

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