Lincoln's House Divided Speech
The House Divided Speech was an address given by senatorial candidate and future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as candidate for US senator.
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Delivered in 1858, this speech articulated Lincoln's view that the United States could not survive half-slave and half-free.