 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1870 - 872 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1870 - 942 pages
...principle, moral and political, onct^epnceived and held up to the angry passions of men, wilk~,"never be obliterated ; and 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 - 1871 - 758 pages
...moment. But this i< j reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a markeJ principle, moral and political, once conceived and...obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper mil deeper. I can say. with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who woulJ sacrifice more... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 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,...never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will murk it deeper and deeper. * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 538 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,...of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new imitation will mark it deeper and deeper.' This great and sagacious statesman was not mistaken. Although... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 pages
...the Union. It is hushed indeed, for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a finul sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritatation will mark it deeper and deeper." Whether the line be held up to the angry passions of... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 570 pages
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the present ; but that is only a reprieve, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once concurred in and held up to the passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...of the Union. It is hushed indeed for a moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper.' The iniquitous annexation of Texas gave the South two senators, with the... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1888 - 610 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,...and political, once conceived, and held up to the anyry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 pages
...of 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,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will work it deeper and deeper." From this time parties were to be really national only so long as the question... | |
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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... 
