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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... "
Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ... - Page 46
by Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 351 pages
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All the Year Round, Volume 6

Charles Dickens - English literature - 1862 - 632 pages
...state voted for Mr. Lincoln. Every Southern state voted against him. Jefferson had seid long ago that " a geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will make it deeper and deeper." Here was the geographical line distinctly chosen for the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 111

English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...North from South as with the clean cnt of a knife. Upon such a division Jefferson remarked long ag*i * geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...and held up to the angry passions of men, will never he obliterated, and every irritation will make it deeper an* deeper The Northern States had 183 votes,...
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Mass Convention of the Democracy and Conservative Citizens of Indiana, Held ...

Indiana. Citizens - Indiana - 1862 - 40 pages
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the present, but that is only a reprieve, not n final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, one • concurred in, and held up to the passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new...
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The American Question, and how to Settle it

Charles Tennant - United States - 1863 - 330 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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The Record of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham on Abolition, the Union, and the Civil War

Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1863 - 282 pages
...death-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," — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,...
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The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the ...

William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 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, and conceived and held up by the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new imtation...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1864 - 974 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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Speeches, Arguments, Addresses, and Letters of Clement L. Vallandigham

Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1864 - 586 pages
...death-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," — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally...
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Southern History of the War: The Last Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 398 pages
...marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The Sage of Monticello spoke prophetically, and in one of his letters put on record this remarkable...
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