JUNE 16, 1858:
Abraham
Lincoln, opening his Senatorial campaign in Springfield, Illinois, makes his
famous “House Divided” speech, the core principle of which is as follows:
"'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 do expect it will cease to be
divided. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it,
and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief 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."
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