 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 - Seite 1231848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 Seiten
...division over slavery as a prologue to disunion. He called the controversy a "fire bell in the night." A "geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," he wrote.15 In the institution of slavery, Jefferson lamented, the South had "the wolf by the ears."... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 Seiten
...slavery. The era of good feeling ended on a note of foreboding. Sectional antagonism, Jefferson wrote, "is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only — A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle. . .will never be obliterated; and every... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 Seiten
...of sectionalism. Jefferson truly saw that the Missouri Compromise marked the end of national unity: "A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...angry passions of men, will never be obliterated." As the southern states acted together in pushing their system into new states and territories, there... | |
 | John C. Waugh - 2003 - 236 Seiten
...was "like a firebell in the night" that had awakened him and filled him 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 single sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 2003 - 766 Seiten
...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 the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - 2004 - 348 Seiten
...awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union," and he explained, "A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 Seiten
...terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the union. ... A geographical line, co-inciding widi a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious trudi, that diere is not a man... | |
 | Benjamin Griffith Brawley - 2005 - 441 Seiten
...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 reprieYe only, not a final sentence. ... I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on... | |
 | Gary Hart - 2005 - 204 Seiten
...had been "filled with terror" that the issue might prove "the death knell of the Union. It is hushed for the moment. But this is a reprieve only; not a final sentence."21 In the final analysis Monroe based his approval of the Missouri Compromise on constitutional... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - 2006 - 357 Seiten
...quarrel would only further deepen the sectional rift. "This is a reprieve only," Jafferson argued, "not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." ^ And later, writing to Albert Gallatin on December 26, 1820, Jefferson echoed the thoughts of Madison... | |
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