 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
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 páginas
...hushed indeed for a 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 make it deeper and deeper.' The iniquitous annexation of Texas gave the South two... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1888 - 610 páginas
...question] is hushed for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived, and held up to the anyry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 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 work it deeper and deeper." From this time parties were to be really national only... | |
 | 1892 - 780 páginas
...and the South. Jefferson gifted with prophetic vision said : " A geographical line, coinciding with a principle, moral and political, once conceived and...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." The second state made from the new territory had brought... | |
 | Henry Dickson Capers - 1893 - 630 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the 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 that the... | |
 | Henry Dickson Capers - 1893 - 630 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...and held up to the angry passions of men, will never ba obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. happiness to their country,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 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,...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 earth who would... | |
 | Edward Ingle - 1896 - 410 páginas
...The danger in this compromise was shown by Jefferson, who wrote in 1820 that " 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." Because the greater part of Texas lay below that line... | |
 | Charles Mitchell Harvey - 1896 - 322 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 make it deeper and "\vorkss°nvoi deepe:." vii"p-'159This note of warning was called... | |
 | Ernst von Halle - 1897 - 406 páginas
...Wahl von 1856, Rhodes, History Bd. II, S. 204 ff. 3 Jefferson schrieb: 1820 „A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...once conceived and held up to the angry passions of 1nen, w1ll never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper", bei Ingle... | |
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