 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 Seiten
...fire-bell in 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 ;...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... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 Seiten
...fire-bell in the night, awakened me, and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the Iinell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment ;...never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will murk it deeper and deeper. * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 Seiten
...ftre 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 finul sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 570 Seiten
...the death-knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the present ; but that is only a reprieve, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding...with a marked principle, moral and political, once concurred in and held up to the passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 Seiten
...filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for a moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence....never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper.' The iniquitous annexation of Texas gave the South two senators, with the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 Seiten
...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 coincidence of a marked principle, moral and political, with a geographical line, once conceived,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 372 Seiten
...in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Uuion. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence." " The coincidence of a marked principle, moral and political, with. a geographical line, once conceived,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1888 - 610 Seiten
...the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union, ft" is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 Seiten
...fire-bell in the night. awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at onc'e as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment' but...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will work it deeper and deeper." From this time parties were to be really national only so long as the question... | |
 | 1892 - 780 Seiten
...and the South. Jefferson gifted with prophetic vision said : " A geographical line, coinciding with a principle, moral and political, once conceived and...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." The second state made from the new territory had brought before the nation a matter of even more serious... | |
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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. 
