 | 1849 - 606 pages
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. 13ut this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one state to another, would not make... | |
 | 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 pages
...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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twenty-eight years have passed since these remarkable words were penned, and there is not a thought... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pages
...sectional discord, it has only opened them wider — because in the powerful language of Mr. Jefferson, " a geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." Southern men saw and felt this from the beginning — »11 men can read... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 pages
..." ' 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,...political, once conceived and held up to the angry pasI 358 »ions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 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,...obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper aiui deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 pages
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is 4 reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions ol men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say,... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Memminger - 1860 - 52 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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. • ******« * * * fice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness... | |
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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... 
