 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1899 - 516 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 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...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will neve1Lbe- obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 498 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" — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...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, 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 Childs Merwin - 1901 - 184 pages
...the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 480 pages
...dangerous principles, x— 831 none of them moral, and, above all, with other and conflicting interests — "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held tip to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it... | |
 | Sara May Riggs - United States - 1902 - 200 pages
...the knell of the unio i. It is hushed indeed for a moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked...every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." " Sources." Hart's Source Book, No. 91. American History Survey, 141-144, 148, 149. Hart's Contemporaries,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 598 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, sleeps for the present, but is not dead.... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - United States - 1905 - 616 pages
...the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the 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." From this time parties were to be really national only so long as the question... | |
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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... 
