 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
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 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." There is a truth in these words which gave the force to... | |
 | 1861 - 458 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." In 1828, when South Carolina was proclaiming the right of veto, and was followed by several of the... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 610 pages
...filled me with terror. / considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence....with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceii-fd and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - History - 1861 - 24 pages
...like "a fire bell in the night/' Said he: " I considered it, at once, as the cleat li knell of tin? Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment, but this...a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding wlfh a marked principle, Moral a/id political," — • Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...momentous question, like a fire-hell in tht night, awakened and filled me with terror. / considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a moment Be: this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away, against an abstract... | |
 | Scotland - 1862 - 1092 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 unike it deeper and deeper.' There is a truth in these words which gave the force to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 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,... | |
 | 1862 - 628 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 irritat'on will make it dee; er and deeper. ... . Tho Northern States had 183 votes, the Southern,... | |
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