...send me of the letter to your constituents on the Missouri question. It is a perfect justification to them. I had for a long time ceased to read newspapers,...be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which 1 am not distant. But this momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me...

...send me of the letter to your constituents on the Missouri question. It is a perfect justification to them. I had for a long time ceased to read newspapers,...passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with...

...feared the consequence of concentrating slaves in the South instead of throughout the country. tent to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which...am not distant. 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...