 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 540 頁
...1820, according to Jefferson, the knell of the Union had been rung ; the slavery question, said he, "like a fire-bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror." But then the Missouri Compromise had saved the Union.2 Again, in 1850 when the South and the North... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 532 頁
...1820, according to Jefferson, the knell of the Union had been rung ; the slavery question, said he, "like a fire-bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror." But then the Missouri Compromise had saved the Union.2 Again, in 1850 when the South and the North... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 252 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 a moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical... | |
 | JACOB PIATT DUNN - 1919 - 694 頁
...April 22, 1820, after the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Holmes: "But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in...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... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - 1919 - 628 頁
...April 22, 1820, after the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Holmes: "But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in...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... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1919 - 388 頁
...passage, "This mo'Anaon D. Mone in Political Science Quarterly, I, 158. mentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - 1985 - 166 頁
...from his mountain-top home near Charlottesville, and to a political ally in Massachusetts he declared: "But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 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... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 頁
...Jefferson had written of slavery in tones of dire prophecy: "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the FIGURE 59 *•• Matthew Brady, photograph of James Russell Lowell. Lowell was thirty-eight... | |
 | Stephen J. Whitfield - 1991 - 214 頁
...turmoil that resulted in the Missouri Compromise had certainly registered that effect upon Jefferson: "This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the...I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only. ..." The slaveholder who drafted... | |
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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. 
