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In 1865, the U.S. accomplished Lincoln’s goal of abolishing slavery—but not without fighting a civil war over it first. There are those who denounce us openly to their own friends, and yet whisper us softly, that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is, with which to effect that object. They do not tell us, nor has he told us, that he wishes any such object to be effected. They wish us to infer all, from the facts, that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty; and that he has regularly voted with us, on a single point, upon which, he and we, have never differed.They remind us that he is a great man, and that the largest of us are very small ones. But "a living dog is better than a dead lion." Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. His avowed mission is impressing the "public heart" to care nothing about it.A leading Douglas Democratic newspaper thinks Douglas' superior talent will be needed to resist the revival of the African slave trade.Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching?
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For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new territories. Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be brought cheapest? And as the home producers will probably not ask the protection, he will be wholly without a ground of opposition.
Christians Must Be United, not Divided
Many thought it had done too much, says Allen Guelzo, director of Civil War era studies at Gettysburg College and author of multiple books about Lincoln. However and most relevantly, the expression was used repeatedly earlier in 1858 in discussions of the situation in Kansas, where slavery was the central issue.
Jesus’ Powerful Warning: “A House Divided Cannot Stand”
The Pharisees could not handle a Messiah who seemed to break the rules by healing where they would have permitted their people to suffer in the name of the law. Legalism divided the Pharisees from God and also from the sheep whom they were assigned to shepherd. Jesus indicates the place where knowledge and understanding divide.
We stay loyal to his teaching and follow his example in life. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
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It makes me wonder if the people tried to bring the most impossible situation to Jesus. Then Jesus did the "impossible" and set this man free, and their astonishment spread like wildfire. Then it rolled through the marketplace like the hum of a diesel engine. "Did you hear? Jesus healed the demon-possessed man. He can speak and see! Could this be the Messiah?" The story and question went from person to person like the ancient version of a viral social media post.
When Jesus stated, "a house divided cannot stand," he meant that a house which opposes itself has no power. Since sin, sickness, and bondage still prevail in our world, we know that Satan's power has not ended. Jesus opposes the realm of death and darkness by bringing freedom to captives. He holds the ultimate authority, and when he comes again, he will defeat Satan for good. 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 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. Auxiliary to all this, and working hand in hand with it, the Nebraska doctrine, or what is left of it, is to educate and mold public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up.
Matthew 12:22-28
Americans may differ sharply on issues like immigration and abortion, but there is no single issue that geographically and economically divides the country in the same way that slavery did in the 1850s. Back then, the U.S. was so divided that many feared it would break out in civil war—a fear that Lincoln unwittingly stoked. 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. 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. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented.
"But," said opposition members, "let us be more specific -- let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the territory may exclude slavery." "Not we," said the friends of the measure; and down they voted the amendment. Lincoln’s now-famous “house divided” line, which is drawn from the Bible, was actually part of a campaign speech he delivered at the 1858 Illinois Republican State Convention. Lincoln, then a relatively unknown politician, had just won the nomination to run for U.S. Senate against one of the most important politicians in the country, Stephen A. Douglas. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falls.
In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. Second, the Pharisees claimed their own exorcists cast out demons by the Spirit of God. By calling into question Jesus' authority, they denied the kingdom of God at work in their lives.
27 Whoever touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. In what cases the power of the states is so restrained by the U.S. Constitution, is left an open question, precisely as the same question, as to the restraint on the power of the territories was left open in the Nebraska act.
The negroe's name was "Dred Scott," which name now designates the decision finally made in the case. “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste,” Jesus begins, before warning that “no city or house divided against itself will stand” (ESV). Other words for “laid waste” have included “brought to desolation” (KJV), “ruined” (NIV), and “headed for destruction” (CSB). “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. The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the states by state constitutions and from most of the national territory by congressional prohibition.
Where was the Lord’s influence in the lives of these religious leaders? The religious rulers were blinded by their division from the Lord. But the Messiah wanted the Pharisees to understand that by opposing him, they were opposing God. 39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and (S)adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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One such man, who was demon-possessed, was blind and mute. This astonished the people, and they asked among themselves if this could be the Messiah. Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the endorsement, such as it was, secured. The endorsement, however, fell short of a clear popular majority by nearly 400,000 votes, and so, perhaps, was not overwhelmingly reliable and satisfactory. The outgoing President, in his last annual message, as impressively as possible echoed back upon the people the weight and authority of the endorsement.
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