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... All the Year Round - Seite 298herausgegeben von - 1862Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1862 - 822 Seiten
...North from South as with the clean cut of a knifo. Upon such a division Jefferson remarked long ago, ' A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every irritation will make it deeper and deeper.' There is a truth in these words which gave the force to this event ; it could neither be obliterated... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 Seiten
...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 principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...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 principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 Seiten
...final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, onre conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...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 principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irration will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man... | |
| 1848 - 738 Seiten
...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 principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated : and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| 1848 - 624 Seiten
...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,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth, that there is not n... | |
| 1848 - 594 Seiten
...the Union. It is bushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| 1848 - 708 Seiten
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical hne, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated: and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 Seiten
...reasoning! " It [the question] is hushed for the moment. But this is A reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years have passed since these remarkable... | |
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