 But this momentous question, like a firebell 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.  The United States Democratic Review - Seite 3721849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 Seiten
...like " a fire-bell in the night." Said he : " considered it, at once, as the death-knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment ; but this is...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political," — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | 1864 - 350 Seiten
...me and filled me •with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is in; -bul, indeed, for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence." Who docs not feel his blood rush like fire through his veins to read these painful prophetic words... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 782 Seiten
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 Seiten
...night, awakened me and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the death-knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment ; but this is a...of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new imitation will mark it deeper and deeper.' This great and sagacious statesman was not mistaken. Although... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - 776 Seiten
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 Seiten
...in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the kpell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1870 - 942 Seiten
...the night, awakened me 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...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, onct^epnceived and held up to the angry passions of men, wilk~,"never be obliterated ; and every new... | |
 | 1872 - 786 Seiten
...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. And again : I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 Seiten
...considered it »: once ns the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this i< j reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a markeJ principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 Seiten
...the night, awakened me, 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...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. - * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves -by the... | |
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