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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. A geographical... "
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Page 372
1849
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 91

England - 1862 - 822 pages
...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...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of ..., Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...considered it at once as the knell of 323 •,lio tJnion. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...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...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of ..., Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...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...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, onre conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new...
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...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...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...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 2; Volume 8

1848 - 738 pages
...terror. I conquered 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...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 23

United States - 1848 - 594 pages
...us the knell of the Union. It is bushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would,...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 2; Volume 8

1848 - 708 pages
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical hne, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would...
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The Works of John C. Calhoun: Speeches ... delivered in the House of ...

John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...his prophetic words ! Mark his profound reasoning! " It [the question] is hushed for the moment. But this is A reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years have passed since these remarkable words were penned, and there is not a thought...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 20

1854 - 788 pages
...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...
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