 | George Morgan - 1921 - 506 Seiten
...relief from this ominous evil. He wrote from Monticello: "This momentous question, like a fireball in the night, awakened 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,... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 716 Seiten
...diverted from reflections like these by the Missouri Question, of which Jefferson wrote to John Holmes: "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the...considered it at once as the knell of the Union."' 1 Garland, v. 2, 118. • Writings (Mem. Ed.), v. 15, 249. CHAPTER X Congressional Career (Continued).... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1922 - 584 Seiten
...the Missouri question "the most portentous one which ever yet threatened the Union"; and had said: "This momentous question, like a firebell in the night,...with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of our Union." "The Judiciary of the United States," he wrote, in 1820, "is the subtle corps of sappers... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 728 Seiten
...diverted from reflections like these by the Missouri Question, of which Jefferson wrote to John Holmes: "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the...night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered Jt at once as the knell of the Union."' 1 Garland, v. 2, 118. • Writings (Mem. Ed.), v. 15, 249.... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 778 Seiten
...into two hostile camps. Jefferson wrote concerning it, " This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 720 Seiten
...wrote to John Holmes: "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and rilled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union."1 1 Garland, v. 2, 118. • Writings (Mem. Ed.), v. 15, 249. CHAPTER X Congressional Career... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 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... | |
 | Louise Payson Latimer - 1924 - 404 Seiten
...slavery first raised its head. "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night," said Jefferson, "awakened and filled me with terror." "I considered it at once as the knell of the Union." For a time, however, the Missouri Compromise quieted the fears of the nation and the enmity springing... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1925 - 652 Seiten
...Louisiana purchase ; Maine to be admitted as a free State] 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 in1 This letter, previously cited (pp. 140-141), as directly bearing on the question of secession,... | |
 | James Francis Lawson - 1926 - 408 Seiten
...fearlessly slept and reviewed in his "dreams 274 THE GENERAL WELFARE CLAUSE. the visions of antiquity", "this momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened" and filled him with terror. • He "considered it at once as the knell of the Union". He was ready to enter, however,... | |
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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. 
