 But this momentous question, like a firebell 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 line,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2501862Full view - About this book
 | England - 1862 - 822 pages
...the clean cut of a knifo. Upon such a division Jefferson remarked long ago, ' A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...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,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. 1 can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...final sentence. A geographical line, 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 irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...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,...passions 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... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 594 pages
...bushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line 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... | |
 | United States - 1849 - 606 pages
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. 13ut this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, 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. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pages
...only opened them wider — because in the powerful language of Mr. Jefferson, " a geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...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 —... | |
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