 | University of South Carolina - 1905 - 294 pages
...Holmes, of Maine, in connection with a Federal disturbance of great moment in the United States, thus : "A geographical line, coinciding with, a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Logic admits of no compromise; it is stern, rigid, unbending. But compromise is of the very essence... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 604 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. Ij;an say, with conscious truth, sleeps for the present, but is not dead. This State is in a condition... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1905 - 624 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 mack it deeper and deeper." From this time parties were to be really national only so long as the question... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 350 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 irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say •with conscious truth that there is not a man... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 428 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,...new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." i John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 420 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." 1 John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 402 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." * John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 406 pages
...geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and 1821] MISSOURI COMPROMISE 169 pol1tical, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." * John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 pages
...Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve . n , !y . not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral 15. 249. and political, once conceived and held up to the angry...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... | |
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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... 
