 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...  The Quarterly Review - Էջ 2501862Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 էջ
...reasoning! " It [the question] is hushed for the moment. But this is A reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years have passed since these remarkable... | |
 | 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,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." Southern men saw and felt this from the beginning —... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 էջ
..." ' It, the question, is hushed for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...political, once conceived and held up to the angry pasI 358 »ions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 էջ
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 էջ
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper aiui deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 էջ
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is 4 reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions ol men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say,... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Memminger - 1860 - 52 էջ
...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,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. • ******« * * * fice of themselves by the generation... | |
 | James Spence - 1861 - 398 էջ
...power. Every Northern State had voted for Mr. Lincoln ; every Southern State had voted against him. It was an act which severed North from South as with...every irritation will make it deeper and deeper." There is a truth in these words which gave the force to this event ; it could neither be obliterated... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1861 - 24 էջ
...dangerous principles, none of them moral, and, above all, with other and conflicting interests — u A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, 4 and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." * * * * * * * * * * " I regret that I am... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1861 - 514 էջ
...hushed, indeed, for the moment; but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical lice, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
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