Worth 50 pionts analyze the excerpt from lincoln’s speech by answering the following questions in one paragraph: • what is lincoln’s point of view regarding the future of the country? • which statement from the excerpt shows his point of view? (you are choosing one sentence from the excerpt on the last page of the lesson to explain) • explain how the selected quote shows lincoln’s point of view. • what is an historical idea or event that supports lincoln’s point of view (concerning the nation)? 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. it will become all one thing or all the other. —abraham lincoln, springfield, illinois, june 16, 1858