 I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...  A Compendium of American Literature - Page 355by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 740 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should he best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the union should be best preserved, but how tolerable "might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 484 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder; I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whethei, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people, when it shall be broken... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - History - 1831 - 248 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed...mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up... | |
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