 | James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 570 páginas
...congratulate himself that he should not survive to witness the calamities he predicted. Said he : " ' This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the death-knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the present ; but that is only a reprieve,... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 páginas
...the impression which that proposal had produced on his mind. ' This momentous question,' he said, ' like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled...as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for a moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 372 páginas
...seemed to him pcegnant_with^ a brood pf^Jaenible-jetribaiiive " This momentous question," he said, " like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled...terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Uuion. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence." "... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1883 - 748 páginas
...bark to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell iu the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as tho knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the... | |
 | William Eaton Foster - 1885 - 104 páginas
...22, 1820, contains a suggestive allusion to this discussion : "This momentous question," he says, " like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled...considered it at once as the knell of the Union." — Jefferson's writings, v. 7, p. 159. See for further allusion to this matter the late Alexander... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1888 - 610 páginas
...were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell...I considered it at once as the knell of the Union, ft" is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 páginas
...concessions were made, cannot be denied. " This momentous question," wrote Jefferson from Monticello, "like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled...considered it at once as the knell of the Union." ' " The words civil war and disunion," wrote Clay, " are uttered almost without emotion ;" ' and Benton... | |
 | Henry Dickson Capers - 1893 - 630 páginas
...were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our barque to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell...filled me with terror. I considered it at once as a knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final... | |
 | Henry Dickson Capers - 1893 - 634 páginas
...were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our barque to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell...night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered ¡t at once as a knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only,... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson - 1895 - 386 páginas
...adopted. The dispute was the more alarming as it was utterly unexpected. Jefferson wrote to a friend, "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror." It disclosed a radical divergence of view between the North and the South, and an intensity of feeling... | |
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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. 
