...the night." Said he: — 'I considered it, at once, as the death knell of the Union. It is hashed, indeed, for the moment; but this is a reprieve only,...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political" — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,...

...filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the unio i. It is hushed indeed for a moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence....never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." " Sources." Hart's Source Book, No. 91. American History Survey, 141-144,...

...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,...But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence." Remember that this was recalled here, in the midst of the canvass of 1852, in which the two great parties...

...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 the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once...

...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,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. Ij;an say, with conscious truth, sleeps for the present, but is not dead. This State is in a condition...

...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,...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mack it deeper and deeper." From this time parties were to be really national only so long as the question...

...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...

...Holmes, of Maine, in connection with a Federal disturbance of great moment in the United States, thus : "A geographical line, coinciding with, a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Logic admits of no compromise; it is stern, rigid, unbending. But compromise is of the very essence...

...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,...for the moment; but this is a reprieve only, not a fmal sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived...

...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,...new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." i John Quincy Adams relates a contemporaneous conversation with Calhoun, in which the latter took the...