 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
 | Carrie Westlake Whitney - History - 1908 - 714 pages
...principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, never will be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twice the house, in which the North was predominant, passed the bill with the anti-slavery proviso,... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites, Calvin Noyes Kendall - United States - 1912 - 572 pages
..."This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened me and filled me with terror. ... It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence." any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to... | |
 | Robert William McLaughlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 324 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 indeed for the present. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. The coincidence of a marked principle,... | |
 | Horace White - Legislators - 1913 - 518 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. Nearly all of the emancipationists, during the decade following the adoption of the Compromise, were... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 696 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...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. " • In the early stages of the controversy the opponents of slavery extension were in the majority... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 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,...reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line [dividing free and slave territory] . . . once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - History - 1985 - 166 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Jefferson went on to insist that there was "not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 pages
...momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. 1 considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...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 it any better. Jefferson... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 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... | |
 | William W. Freehling - History - 1990 - 660 pages
...the northern assault "like a fire bell in the night," "hushed" only "for the moment." The North-South "geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." To this all-too-true prophesy, Jefferson added the dirge of the old man who mourns for life's labor... | |
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