 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 498 Seiten
...ear like "a fire bell in the night." Said he: — " I considered it, at once, as the death knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment; but...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political" — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1901 - 184 Seiten
...the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 480 Seiten
...the night." Said he: — 'I considered it, at once, as the death knell of the Union. It is hashed, indeed, for the moment; but this is a reprieve only,...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political" — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | Sara May Riggs - 1902 - 200 Seiten
...filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the unio i. 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." " Sources." Hart's Source Book, No. 91. American History Survey, 141-144,... | |
 | Gustavus M. Pinckney - 1903 - 272 Seiten
...the 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...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 generation... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 Seiten
...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." Remember that this was recalled here, in the midst of the canvass of 1852, in which the two great parties... | |
 | Gustavus M. Pinckney - 1903 - 274 Seiten
...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 the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 Seiten
...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...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, sleeps for the present, but is not dead. This State is in a condition... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 334 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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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. 
