 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
 | Henry Dickson Capers - Blue Ridge Railroad - 1893 - 636 pages
...question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as a 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 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,...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... | |
 | Charles Mitchell Harvey - Campaign literature - 1896 - 322 pages
...once as the knell of the Union." Then with words which future events proved to be prophetic, he added: "It is hushed, indeed, for the moment, but this is...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and "\vorkss°nvoi deepe:." vii"p-'159This note of warning was called out by the contest... | |
 | Edward Ingle - Southern States - 1896 - 400 pages
...profitably be grown. The danger in this compromise was shown by Jefferson, who wrote in 1820 that " A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Because the greater part of Texas lay below that line was the reason in part for the opposition in... | |
 | Ernst von Halle - Cotton growing - 1897 - 406 pages
...auch die Drohungen bei der Wahl von 1856, Rhodes, History Bd. II, S. 204 ff. 3 Jefferson schrieb: 1820 „A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...once conceived and held up to the angry passions of 1nen, w1ll never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper", bei Ingle... | |
 | Economics - 1898 - 916 pages
...Rhodos, Ilistory Bd. II, S. 204 ff. * Jefferson schrieb: 1820 „A geographical line eoinciding wirb a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived...held up to the angry passions of men, will never be oblitcrated, and cvery ncw irritation will mark it deeper and deeper", bei Inele aa OS 304. * Life... | |
 | Ernst von Halle - Cotton growing - 1898 - 1212 pages
...n marked prinoiple, moral and politifal, oncc conceived and held up to the angry passions of inen, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper". bei Ingle aa OS 304. 4 Life and Leiters of Francis Lieber, S. 314. südlicher Bildung *. Die socialen... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 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,...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
...upon his ear like "a fire bell in the night." Said he: — " I considered it, at once, as the death knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political" — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost... | |
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