 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.  The American Whig Review - Side 1231848Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 402 sider
...question," wrote Jefferson, "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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." * John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1905 - 400 sider
...question," wrote Jefferson, "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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." ' John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 406 sider
...question," wrote Jefferson, "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,...line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and 1821] MISSOURI COMPROMISE 169 pol1tical, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 384 sider
...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,...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 sider
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 sider
...(Missouri Compromise), 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,...geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral 15. 249. and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated,... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 sider
...controversy of the extension of slavery first arose, he wrote to a private friend : "I consider it at once the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 sider
...question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at onoe as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve . n , !y . not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 sider
...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... | |
 | Carrie Westlake Whitney - 1908 - 716 sider
...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,...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,... | |
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