 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
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1916 - 392 էջ
...prevent any man's having such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "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," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - 1917 - 392 էջ
...prevent any man's having such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "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," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical... | |
 | JACOB PIATT DUNN - 1919 - 694 էջ
...of 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." 5 In Indiana the geographical line was the Ohio river,... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - 1919 - 628 էջ
...of 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. ' ' 5 In Indiana the geographical line was the Ohio... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1919 - 388 էջ
...the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union. ... 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."* Although the tariff was the ostensible reason for... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 704 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." This continued to be done until slavery. Free and Slave... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 730 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,...moral and political, once conceived and held up to the aiv^iy passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1921 - 704 էջ
...of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment. But this as 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." John Quincy Adams saw in the Missouri question the... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 370 էջ
...Jefferson had little faith in the permanency of such a settlement. "A geographical line," said he, "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." And Madison, usually optimistic about the future of... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 376 էջ
...Jefferson had little faith in the permanency of such a settlement. "A geographical line," said he, "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." And Madison, usually optimistic about the future of... | |
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