 But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line,...  Southern Literary Messenger - Seite 1271861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1862 - 822 Seiten
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knifo. Upon such a division Jefferson remarked long ago, ' A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will make it deeper and deeper.' There is a truth in these words which gave the force to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 Seiten
...knell of 323 the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. 1 can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 Seiten
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, onre conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line. coinciding with a marked...of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irration will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irration will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious...that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more-than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way. The cession of that... | |
 | 1848 - 624 Seiten
...knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked...I can say with conscious truth, that there is not n man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would, to relieve us from this heavy reproach, in any... | |
 | 1849 - 604 Seiten
...knell of the Uuiun. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one state to another, would not make... | |
 | 1849 - 606 Seiten
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. 13ut this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one state to another, would not make... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 Seiten
...profound reasoning! " It [the question] is hushed for the moment. But this is A reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years have passed since these remarkable words were penned, and there is not a thought... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 Seiten
...reasoning ! " ' It, the question, is hushed for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked...political, once conceived and held up to the angry pasI 358 »ions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
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