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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. "
Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ... - Seite 332
von Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ...

Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 360 Seiten
...time, ceased to read newspapers, or to pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...the shore, from which I am not distant. But 'this momen-\ tous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened^ and filled me with terror. I consider...
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The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 ..., Band 2

1864 - 350 Seiten
...the following burning words : "ТЫя momentons question, like a fireball in the night, awakened 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...
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The Southern Review, Band 1

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 Seiten
...friend : ' But this momentous question (the Missouri one) like a fire-bell in the 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 reprieve only, not a final...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Band 3

Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 Seiten
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...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 a reprieve only, not a final...
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A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes ...

Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1870 - 872 Seiten
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they wei'e iu good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from Avbich I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened me and...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Band 3

Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 Seiten
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it »: once ns the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this i< j reprieve only,...
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Speeches delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the ...

John Caldwell Calhoun - 1874 - 604 Seiten
...were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our I o,nk to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell...filled me with terror. I considered it at once as tho knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the...
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The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell

Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 Seiten
...longtime ceased to read newspapers, orpay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...question, like a 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,...
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The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell

Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 Seiten
...attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in onr bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But...question, like a 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,...
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Monthly Reference Lists, Bände 1-4

Providence Public Library (R.I.) - 1881 - 346 Seiten
...aa, 182o, contains a suggestive allusion to this discussion : " This momentous question," he zays, " like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled...considered it at once as the knell of the union." Jefferson's writings, v. 7, p. 159.] See for farther allusion to this matter the late Alexander H....
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