| 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 - 1102 Seiten
...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, coinciding with...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 Seiten
...knell of 323 •,lio tJnion. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 Seiten
...the 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...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
...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, 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 - 982 Seiten
...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, coinciding with...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... | |
| 1848 - 624 Seiten
...in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But the momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror....every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth, that there is not n man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would,... | |
| 1848 - 594 Seiten
...awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once us the knell of the Union. It is bushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would,... | |
| 1848 - 738 Seiten
...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, coinciding with...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
| 1849 - 606 Seiten
...once, the 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...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... | |
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