 | Emma Langdon Roche - 1914 - 198 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 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... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1917 - 922 Seiten
...1820, and pointed out by several, but especially by Jefferson when he wrote this oftquoted passage, "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the...and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1915 - 234 Seiten
...State." Then it was he wrote : "This momentous 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." But the absorbing interest of the last sixteen years of his life, when he said, he had "one foot in... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 612 Seiten
...Negro Race in America, vol ii.. p. 19. t Jefferson wrote: "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened 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... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 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...I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. — A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 540 Seiten
...1820, according to Jefferson, the knell of the Union had been rung ; the slavery question, said he, "like a fire-bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror." But then the Missouri Compromise had saved the Union.2 Again, in 1850 when the South and the North... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 532 Seiten
...1820, according to Jefferson, the knell of the Union had been rung ; the slavery question, said he, "like a fire-bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror." But then the Missouri Compromise had saved the Union.2 Again, in 1850 when the South and the North... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 252 Seiten
...ceased to read newspapers or to pay any attention to public affairs, confident that they were in good hands and content to be a passenger in our bark to...the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1919 - 388 Seiten
...passage, "This mo'Anaon D. Mone in Political Science Quarterly, I, 158. mentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | George Morgan - 1921 - 542 Seiten
...critics confess that he hoped in his heart for relief from this ominous evil. He wrote from Monticello: "This momentous question, like a firebell in the night,...and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union." Subsequently, he seemed to see with the eyes of a prophet, and said that,... | |
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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. 
