 | Thomas Jefferson - Statesmen - 1905 - 360 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 - United States - 1905 - 1044 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... | |
 | University of South Carolina - 1905 - 294 pages
...Holmes, of Maine, in connection with a Federal disturbance of great moment in the United States, thus : "A geographical line, coinciding with, a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Logic admits of no compromise; it is stern, rigid, unbending. But compromise... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 350 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...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say •with conscious truth that there is not a man... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - History - 1906 - 402 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." * John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun,... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - Mississippi River Valley - 1906 - 428 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 John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun,... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - History - 1906 - 406 pages
...geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and 1821] MISSOURI COMPROMISE 169 pol1tical, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of...never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." * John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 384 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...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 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...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve . n , !y . not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on... | |
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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... 
