 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 384 Seiten
...a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 Seiten
...influence, but for safety. with a marked principle, moral and political, and conceived and held up by the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." But it seems clear to me that if slavery had never existed, a community... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 Seiten
...line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, and conceived and held up by the arigry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." But it seems clear to me that if slavery had never ! existed, a community... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1921 - 624 Seiten
...keen prophecy : — "A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle moral & political once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated." Writings of Jefferson (Ford), x, 157 and in many other places. In 1821, Calhoun, writing to Charles... | |
 | Carrie Westlake Whitney - 1908 - 714 Seiten
...principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, never will be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twice the house, in which the North was predominant, passed the bill with the anti-slavery proviso,... | |
 | Beverley Bland Munford - 1909 - 360 Seiten
...that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."1 Writing in 1820 to John Holmes, he said: " I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man 'ldem, p. 53. 'Writings of Jefferson, Ford, Vol. llI, p. 267. ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENTS FROM 1810-1831... | |
 | Horace White - 1913 - 516 Seiten
...final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Nearly all of the emancipationists, during the decade following the adoption of the Compromise, were... | |
 | Emma Langdon Roche - 1914 - 198 Seiten
...final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men,...would to relieve us from this heavy reproach, in any practical way. The cession of that kind of property (for so it is misnamed) is a bagatelle, which would... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 718 Seiten
...final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." • In the early stages of the controversy the opponents of slavery extension were in the majority... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 694 Seiten
...final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men,...obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper."1 In the early stages of the controversy the opponents of slavery extension were in the majority... | |
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A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. 
