 | United States - 1850 - 616 pages
...well-known and dignified address : " 1 have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation on the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion ;" and it closes with the solemn declaration : " I have now, senators, done rny duty, in expressing... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 608 pages
...well-known and dignified address: "1 have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation on the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and eflective measure, end in disunion ;" and it closes with the solemn declaration : " I have now, senators,... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 544 pages
...Judge Butler, on the 4th day of March, 1850: — SPEECH ON THE SLAVERY OUESTION. I have, Senators, believed from the first, that the agitation of the...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 800 pages
...speech, which was read for him (March 4, 1849) by another senator. He declared in tins speech his belief from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timetouN ive measure, end in disunion. It had, however, gone o: palpably in danger. Tl !ie union b-... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...speech, which was read for him (March 4, 1849) by another senator. He declared in this speech his belief from the first that the agitation of the subject of...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. It bad, however, gone on till the union was palpably in danger. The question now was, how... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...great speech, delivered March 4, 1850, a few days before his death, opened with the words, " I have believed from the first that the agitation of the...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion." And he went on to say: "If something is not done to avert it, the South will be forced to... | |
 | James Williams (American diplomat.) - Presidents - 1863 - 448 pages
...from. Mr. Calhoun's last Speech in the Senate — Year 1850. I have believed from the first, senators, that the agitation of the subject of slavery would,...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion I have, on all proper occasions, endeavoured to call the attention... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1863 - 642 pages
...Mr. CALHOUN. I have, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of shivery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1874 - 604 pages
...gives us. SPEECH Oa the Slavery Question, delivered in the Senate, March 4th, 1850. I HAVE, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 620 pages
...only anxious forebodings and cares which were justified by the clearest insight. "I have, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion." It was a melancholy satisfaction for the man who, for more than a generation, had played... | |
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I HAVE, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention... 
