 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 554 pagina’s
...of the subject then first started, and he could probably have said with Jefferson that the Missouri question, " like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," if he was still too full of the hope of youth to go on with the older man, " I considered it at once... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 554 pagina’s
...of the subject then first started, and he could probably have said with Jefferson that the Missouri question, " like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," if he was still too full of the hope of youth to go on with the older man, " I considered it at once... | |
 | George Washington Platt - 1904 - 392 pagina’s
...have no more political advantage because of her slaves. "This momentous question," wrote Jefferson, "like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror." With the two Sections dead-locked, nothing could take place but the most acrimonious debates, accompanied... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 pagina’s
...time ceased to read newspapers or to pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands and content to be a passenger in our bark to...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 ,... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1910 - 540 pagina’s
...cannot put out, which seas of blood can only extinguish." "This momentous question," said Jefferson, "like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled...considered it at once as the knell of the Union." 225 States were represented according to population (p. 156), and population at the North was increasing... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - 1912 - 738 pagina’s
...compromises, and it is the aged Jefferson who writes from Monticello apropos of the Missouri Compromise, "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the...and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union." Now there never was a moment in the history of the country when this fire-bell... | |
 | Robert William McLaughlin - 1912 - 324 pagina’s
...area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, said when he heard of the Missouri Compromise: This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...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,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 258 pagina’s
...to admit Missouri as a slave State. "This momentous question," wrote Jefferson from his retirement, "like a fire-bell in the night awakened and filled...considered it at once as the knell of the Union." 1 The result of the agitation was the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was admitted as a slave State,... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1913 - 308 pagina’s
...compromises, and it is the aged Jefferson who writes from Monticello apropos of the Missouri Compromise, — " This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union." Now there never was a moment in the history of the country when this fire-bell... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 242 pagina’s
...question," wrote Jefferson from his retirement, "like a fire-bell in the night awakened and rilled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union." l The result of the agitation was the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was admitted as a slave State,... | |
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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. 
