 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 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,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will neve1Lbe- obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 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,...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 - 1900 - 498 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,...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 Childs Merwin - 1901 - 184 pages
...the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 480 pages
...way possible; by running other lines, coinciding with other and less dangerous principles, x— 831 none of them moral, and, above all, with other and...principle, moral and political, once conceived and held tip to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it... | |
 | Sara May Riggs - 1902 - 200 pages
...of the unio i. 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." " Sources." Hart's Source Book, No. 91. American History Survey, 141-144,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 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, sleeps for the present, but is not dead. This State is in a condition... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 360 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 Johnston - 1905 - 616 pages
...the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment; but this is a reprieve only, not a fmal sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." From this time parties were to be really national only so long as the question of slavery was kept... | |
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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... 
