 | 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... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 էջ
...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...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 - 624 էջ
...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 the final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | 1849 - 604 էջ
...the night, has awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Uuiun. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one state to another, would not make... | |
 | 1849 - 606 էջ
...terror. I considered it at once, the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. 13ut this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one state to another, would not make... | |
 | 1848 - 708 էջ
...the ntcht, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at ünce as the knell ol the Unton. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is...reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical hne, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 էջ
...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 the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 էջ
...he, Mr. Jefferson's prophetic words ! Mark his profound reasoning ! " ' It, the question, is hushed g k ߀ , ܲ遀 쁀 U Ԁ 0 ; 낀 pasI 358 »ions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 էջ
...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...obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper aiui deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice... | |
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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. 
