 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - Cotton growing - 1916 - 474 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." 7 i Cited by Elliott, pp. 234-235, note. CHAPTER 40 THE STRUGGLE FOB FRESH... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1916 - 392 pages
...prevent any man's having such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical line with... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - Wisconsin - 1917 - 392 pages
...prevent any man's having such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical line with... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 248 pages
...the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a 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." 4 He likewise dwelt on the exulting protest of Clay against... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - Wisconsin - 1917 - 396 pages
...prevent any man's having such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical line with... | |
 | Agriculture - 1942 - 584 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... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1917 - 392 pages
...prevent any man's having such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated,, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical line with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line [dividing free and slave territory] . . . once conceived and held up to the angry passions of...never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . There is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - History - 1985 - 166 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." Jefferson went on to insist that there was "not a man on earth who would... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 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.44 The passage has been quoted often, perhaps because no one since has said... | |
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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... 
