...cause — setting bounds to slavery the most cruel and debasing that the world has ever witnessed. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...much threaten, must come, I can only say let it come. . . . If blood is necessary to extinguish any fire which I have assisted to kindle, while I regret...

...waters of the ocean cannot put out, and which only seas of blood can extinguish." Tallmadge replied: "If dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so. If civil war must come, let it come. My hold on life is probably as frail as any man's who hears me; but while it...

...waters of the ocean cannot put out, and which only seas of blood can extinguish," Tallmadge replied, "If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come. If blood is necessary to extinguish any fire which I have assisted to kindle, while I regret the necessity,...

...1175-77. 1 Idem, p. 1202. Union will be dissolved," and Mr. Tallmadge (of New York) retorting, "Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so 1 If Civil War, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come."1 Mr. Tallmadge...

...must come, I can only say. let it come! My hold on life is probably as frail as that of any man who hears me, but while that hold lasts, it shall be devoted to the service of my country, to the freedom of man. The violence which gentlemen have resorted to will not move my purpose....

...ocean cannot put out, and which only seas of blood can extinguish." To which Mr. Tallmadge replied : " If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say let it come ! . . . If blood is necessary to extinguish any fire which I have assisted to kindle, while I regret...

...seas of blood could extinguish. James Tallmadge said : " Language of this sort has no effect on me. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...on life is probably as frail as that of any man who hears me, but while that hold lasts, it shall be devoted to the service of my country, to the freedom...

...such conditions of admission as may be judged reasonable. ..." Tallmadge (NY), Febr. 16, 1819. "Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so l If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come. ... If blood...

...union or civil war would shortly follow. To these threats, Representative Tallmadge had a ready reply: "If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come!"40 But men of more moderate views were genuinely alarmed. And as the debate resumed with the...

...still people sought to encourage and extend to Missouri this "monstrous scourge of the human race?" If civil war, "which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come!" With such a defect as slavery spreading in the Union, he thundered, "your Government must crumble to...