But this momentous question, like a firebell 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 line,... The Quarterly Review - Página 2501862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 páginas
...none of them moral, arid, above all, with other and conflicting interests — **A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." .... . "I regret that I am now to die in the belief... | |
| Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 368 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment, but this is a reptieve only, not OTISAL sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle moral and political,...passions of men WILL NEVER BE OBLITERATED, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper! I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 782 páginas
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 398 páginas
...Congress, he wrote : " The question sleeps for the present, but is not dead." " A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The Sage of Monticello... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - 776 páginas
...Missouri legislation was the preliminary trace of disunion. " A geographical line," wrote Mr. Jefferson, " coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will not be obliterated ; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." The North naturally... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 páginas
...moment. But this i< j reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a markeJ principle, moral and political, once conceived and...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper mil deeper. I can say. with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
| Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions .of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. - * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief,... | |
| Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will murk it deeper and deeper. * * * I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 538 páginas
...hushed indeed for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new imitation will mark it deeper and deeper.' This great and sagacious statesman was not mistaken.... | |
| Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 páginas
...hushed indeed, for the moment ; but this is a reprieve only, not a finul sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritatation will mark it deeper and deeper." Whether the line be held up to the angry passions... | |
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