 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 頁
...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 頁
...public affairs, confident that they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our barque to the shore from which I am not far distant. But...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 頁
...public affairs, confident that they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our barque to the shore from which I am not far distant. But...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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 頁
...they were in good hands and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell...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. A geographical... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson - 1895 - 386 頁
...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... | |
 | Charles Mitchell Harvey - 1896 - 322 頁
...consequences of sectional politics earlier than any of his contemporaries. "This momentous question, ^vil"^iu like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," wrote theN'*ht-" the ex-President in a letter dated April 22, 1820, to John Holmes. "I considered it... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1898 - 362 頁
...a brood of terrible retributive disasters. " This momentous question," he said, " like a fire-hell 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 coincidence... | |
 | Norval Chase Heironimus - 1898 - 60 頁
...system. It was this startling fact of a North arrayed against a South that drew from Jefferson the words: "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the...considered it at once as the knell of the Union." helped to widen the gulf between them. Laying down a definite line between free soil and slave soil... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 頁
...in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. 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. A geographical... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 頁
...I assure you of my great friendship and respect. (To Edward Coles, 1814. F. IX., 477.) SLAVERY. — This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night,...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. A geographical... | |
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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. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. 
