...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...Heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on...

...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...Heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on...

...burst of declamation over the vision of a broken union — "States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood" — is an d posteriori argument for A union " now and forever one and inseparable." Curran's awful...

...Webster's "integrity of heart and magnanimity of feeling" (v1, 7, 8, 14, 41, 46, 15). Hayne's methods mean "States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!" Webster's attitude leads instead to "the prosperity and honor of the whole country." Fortunately, the...

...schoolchildren were required to memorize the closing lines of Daniel Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds,...

...future, he spoke, as he had when a teenager himself, of "states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ... a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood," and like John Witherspoon a half-century before, he called instead for "Liberty and Union, now and...

...the right to nullify or set aside an act of Congress. The concluding words of Webster's speech were: When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign...

...Daniel Webster delivered these words in his second speech on Foote's Resolution, January 26, 1830: When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal...

...dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union . . . states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ... a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!" Instead, Webster urged loyalty to the "sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty and...

...grant, that on my vision never may he opened what lies hehind. When my eyes shall he turned to hehold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see...glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, helligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may he, in fraternal blood! Let their...