 | 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,...never be obliterated: and 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... | |
 | 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,...every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." Southern men saw and felt this from the beginning — »11 men can read the fulfilment of this prophecy... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...never be obliterated; and 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... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...reasoning ! " ' It, the question, is hushed for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked...political, once conceived and held up to the angry pasI 358 »ions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...knell 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...never be obliterated ; and 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...knell 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...never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper aiui deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 pages
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is 4 reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions ol men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say,... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Memminger - United States - 1860 - 52 pages
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. • ******« * * * fice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...knell 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...never be obliterated ; and 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... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 830 pages
...knell 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, moral and political, one* conceived and held up to the angry passioni of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new... | |
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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... 
