 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 384 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 on... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 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 on... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 pages
...influence, but for safety. with a marked principle, moral and political, and conceived and held up by the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." But it seems clear to me that if slavery had never existed, a community... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 pages
...line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, and conceived and held up by the arigry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." But it seems clear to me that if slavery had never ! existed, a community... | |
 | Carrie Westlake Whitney - 1908 - 716 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, never will be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twice the house,... | |
 | Carrie Westlake Whitney - 1908 - 714 pages
...principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, never will be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twice the house, in which the North was predominant, passed the bill with the anti-slavery proviso,... | |
 | Emma Langdon Roche - 1914 - 198 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. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 696 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. " • In the early stages of the controversy the opponents of slavery extension were in the majority... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 694 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,...obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper."1 In the early stages of the controversy the opponents of slavery extension were in the majority... | |
 | James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell - 1915 - 386 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... | |
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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... 
