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Quotation from House Divided Speech by Abraham Lincoln
“We shall lie down, pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State.”
House Divided Speech, Paragraph 18 (Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, Everyman's Library (1907))
His warning of what a second Dred Scott decision could do to the free states.
Citation: "We shall lie down, pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State." — Abraham Lincoln, House Divided Speech, Paragraph 18 (Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, Everyman's Library (1907)). (id house-divided-speech-q5)
Portrait: Abraham Lincoln LCCN2002717219, Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain.
