 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.  The American Whig Review - Page 1231848Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 942 pages
...momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened me and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, onct^epnceived and held up to the angry passions of men, wilk~,"never be obliterated ; and every new... | |
 | 1872 - 786 pages
...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,...but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. And again : I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 758 pages
...question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it »: once ns the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this i< j reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a markeJ principle,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1874 - 604 pages
...question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as tho knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 pages
...momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened me, and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. - * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves -by the generation... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 pages
...fire-bell in the night, awakened me, and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the Iinell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment...never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will murk it deeper and deeper. * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 pages
...fire-bell in the night, awakened me and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the death-knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment ;...of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new imitation will mark it deeper and deeper.' This great and sagacious statesman was not mistaken. Although... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1889 - 1162 pages
...momentous questton, like a ftre bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed...for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a finul sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
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