What Lincoln When Was The United States A House Divided
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What Lincoln meant when he called United States “a house divided” and how the country was at odds over the economic systems of the south and the principles of the nation?
The origin of the phrase is the Bible, in the gospel of Mark 3:25 and Mathew 12:25Jesus said the house divided speech was given by Abraham Lincoln in 1958 in Illinois state capitol in Springfield during campaigns. In this metaphor “a house divided” the house stands for the union (to the United States of America) and that the house was divided slave and the Free State. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread it of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate …show more content…
Lincoln believed that the recent Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case was part of a Democratic conspiracy that would lead to the legalization of slavery in all states. Referring to the court's decision which permitted Dred Scott to live in a free state and yet remain a slave, he said, "what Dred's Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state”. Abraham Lincoln’s “house divided” speech was a response to the political situation in the United States in that he would achieve his goals of stopping the spread of slavery into other territories, by arguing that Douglas was acting to spread slavery across the nation. Douglas told Americans that Lincoln was completely irresponsible in saying that a house is divided, Douglas was forever against Lincoln ideas and speeches. Lincoln lost elections to Douglas but his eloquence in politics kept him the national limelight and opened way to his
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What Lincoln meant when he called United States “a house divided” and how the country was at odds over the economic systems of the south and the principles of the nation?
The origin of the phrase is the Bible, in the gospel of Mark 3:25 and Mathew 12:25Jesus said the house divided speech was given by Abraham Lincoln in 1958 in Illinois state capitol in Springfield during campaigns. In this metaphor “a house divided” the house stands for the union (to the United States of America) and that the house was divided slave and the Free State. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread it of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate …show more content…
Lincoln believed that the recent Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case was part of a Democratic conspiracy that would lead to the legalization of slavery in all states. Referring to the court's decision which permitted Dred Scott to live in a free state and yet remain a slave, he said, "what Dred's Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state”. Abraham Lincoln’s “house divided” speech was a response to the political situation in the United States in that he would achieve his goals of stopping the spread of slavery into other territories, by arguing that Douglas was acting to spread slavery across the nation. Douglas told Americans that Lincoln was completely irresponsible in saying that a house is divided, Douglas was forever against Lincoln ideas and speeches. Lincoln lost elections to Douglas but his eloquence in politics kept him the national limelight and opened way to his