 | Literature - 1861 - 514 pages
...the knell of the Union. It it hushed indeed for ike moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a fmal 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... | |
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knife. 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... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...hushed, indeed, for the moment; but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical lice, 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... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - History - 1861 - 24 pages
...dangerous principles, none of them moral, and, above all, with other and conflicting interests — u A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, 4 and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." * * * * * * * * * * " I regret that I am... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...profound 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...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, wilt never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a moment Be: this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceited and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated : and every -new irritation... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 636 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. . . . If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw... | |
 | Scotland - 1862 - 1092 pages
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knife. 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 unike it deeper and deeper.' There is a truth in these words which gave the force to... | |
 | 1862 - 628 pages
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knife. 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 irritat'on will make it dee; er and deeper. ... . Tho Northern States had 183 votes, the Southern,... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knife. 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 The Northern States had 183 votes, the Southern, if unanimous,... | |
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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... 
