Abraham Lincoln : a Character Sketch Copy 3

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Herndon and asked him, "How do you like that?" It was the speech that was to be delivered before the Republican convention, avowing his candidacy for the Senate. The paragraph was as follows: "Gentlemen of the 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 on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. L n...der the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis has been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not 52 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divid- ed. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the farther 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 adversaries will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new; North as well as South." Then followed a masterly review of the aggressive steps by which pro-slavery legislators had sought to ex- tend the institution, and the part that Mr.


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