 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2501862Full view - About this book
 | England - 1862 - 822 pages
...had voted against him. It was an act that severed North from South as with the clean cut of a knifo. Upon such a division Jefferson remarked long ago,...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 - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...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 - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 624 pages
...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 - 738 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 594 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...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... | |
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