 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
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 360 էջ
...THE UNION! It is hushed, indeed, for the momerit, but this is a repiieve 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 make it deeper and deeper! I can say ;with conscious truth that >there,is not a... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 782 էջ
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - 776 էջ
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1870 - 872 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 - 1871 - 758 էջ
...moment. But this i< j reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a markeJ principle, moral and political, once conceived and...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper mil deeper. I can say. with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 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 regret that I am now to die in the belief,... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 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 murk it deeper and deeper. * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 538 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 imitation will mark it deeper and deeper.' This great and sagacious statesman was not mistaken.... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 էջ
...the Union. It is hushed indeed, for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a finul sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritatation will mark it deeper and deeper." Whether the line be held up to the angry passions... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 570 էջ
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the present ; but that is only a reprieve, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once concurred in and held up to the passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation... | |
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