 | 1862 - 822 էջ
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knifo. Upon such a division Jefferson remarked long ago, ' A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will make it deeper and deeper.' There is a truth in these words which gave the force to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 էջ
...considered it at once as the knell of 323 •,lio tJnion. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 էջ
...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. A geographical...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 էջ
...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. A geographical...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, onre conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 էջ
...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. A geographical...of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irration will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on... | |
 | 1848 - 738 էջ
...terror. I conquered 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. A geographical...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... | |
 | 1848 - 594 էջ
...us the knell of the Union. It is bushed 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 can say with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would,... | |
 | 1848 - 708 էջ
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical hne, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...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... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 էջ
...his prophetic words ! Mark his profound reasoning! " It [the question] is hushed for the moment. But this is A reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years have passed since these remarkable words were penned, and there is not a thought... | |
 | 1854 - 788 էջ
...sectional discord, it has only opened them wider — because in the powerful language of Mr. Jefferson, " a geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." Southern men saw and felt this from the beginning — »11 men can read... | |
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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. A geographical... 
