...principle, moral and political, once 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, in which the North was predominant, passed the bill with the anti-slavery proviso,...

..."This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened me and filled me with terror. ... It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence." any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to...

...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 present. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. The coincidence of a marked principle,...

...momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened me 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. Nearly all of the emancipationists, during the decade following the adoption of the Compromise, were...

...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. " • In the early stages of the controversy the opponents of slavery extension were in the majority...

...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,...reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line [dividing free and slave territory] . . . once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will...

...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." Jefferson went on to insist that there was "not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would...

...momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. 1 considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.44 The passage has been quoted often, perhaps because no one since has said it any better. Jefferson...

...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...

...the northern assault "like a fire bell in the night," "hushed" only "for the moment." The North-South "geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." To this all-too-true prophesy, Jefferson added the dirge of the old man who mourns for life's labor...