 | United States - 1859 - 424 pages
...passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like the firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the Union." The threatening aspect of national affairs predicted by Jefferson, in the... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. Bat this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Memminger - United States - 1860 - 52 pages
...ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident that they 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 in the night, awakened and filled me with... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 514 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands and content to be a -passenger in our bark to...considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It it hushed indeed for ike moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a fmal sentence. A geographical line,... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 610 pages
...'ceased to read newspapers or to pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good bands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore...in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. / considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a moment. But this is... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...ceased to read t»ewspap«rs, or pay any attention to public affairs, confideiit they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled in.; with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...he, 'ceased to read newspapers or to pay any attention to public affair?, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which 1 am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-hell in tht night, awakened and filled me... | |
 | Indiana. Citizens - Indiana - 1862 - 40 pages
...Jefferson said: This momentous question, like a fire-bill in the night, awakened and filled me wiih terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the present, but that is only a reprieve, not n final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a... | |
 | Jeremiah Smith - Slavery - 1863 - 506 pages
...question," said he in bis letter of April 22d, 1820, to John Holmes, of Missouri, " like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ***** I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or to pay any attention to public afiairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened, and filled me with terror. I conridered it at once at the DEATH KNELL... | |
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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. 
